February 2026 (definitive estimates):
• The unemployment rate stood at 5.8%, up from January 2026 by 0.2 percentage points (pp), and from November 2025 by 0.1 pp, but down by 0.5 pp from February of that year.
• The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 9.8%, up from the previous month (0.2 pp), equal to three months earlier, but down from the same month of a year before (0.8 pp).
March 2026 (provisional estimates):
• The unemployment rate stood at 5.8%, as in February 2026, up from December 2025 (0.2 pp), but down from March of a year before (0.5 pp).
• The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 9.8%, the same value as in the previous month, up from three months before (0.1 pp), but down from a year earlier (0.9 pp).
• The youth unemployment rate stood, in March 2026, at 18.1%, reaching the lowest value since October 2022 (17.5%).
