March 2026 (definitive estimates):
• The unemployment rate stood at 5.8%, the same value as in February 2026, up from December 2025 by 0.2 percentage points (pp), but down by 0.5 pp from March of that year.
• The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 9.8%, the same value as in the previous month, up from three months earlier (0.2 pp), but down from the same month of a year before (0.9 pp).
April 2026 (provisional estimates):
• The unemployment rate stood at 5.7%, down from March 2026 (0.1 pp), up from January 2026 (0.1 pp), but down from April 2025 (0.5 pp).
• The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 9.7%, down from the previous month (0.1 pp), up from three months before (0.1 pp) and down from a year earlier (0.8 pp).
• The activity rate stood, in April 2026, at 70.2%, reaching the highest value since the beginning of the series in February 1998.
