July 2026 (definitive estimates):
• The unemployment rate stood at 5.7%, the same value as in April and June 2026 but down 0.1 percentage points (pp) from July 2025.
• The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 9.6%, up from the previous month (0.3 pp), and down from three months before (0.1 pp) and from the same month of 2025 (0.4 pp).
• The unemployment rate of men stood at 4.9%, reaching its lowest value since February 1998.
August 2026 (provisional estimates):
• The unemployment rate stood at 5.7%, the same value as in July 2026, up from May of that year (0.1 pp) and down from August 2025 (0.2 pp).
• The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 9.7%, up from the previous month (0.1 pp) and from three months before (0.2 pp) and down from a year earlier (0.4 pp).
The monthly employment and unemployment estimates published in the current Press Release are still based on the resident population estimates calculated from the final results of the 2021 Census. Following the release of the annual resident population estimates based on administrative sources for 2025 and the revision for the 2021 to 2024 period, the monthly employment and unemployment estimates will be revised on the 4th of March 2027.
