{"id":13005,"date":"2025-07-22T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13005\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T09:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:08:12","slug":"finlands-unemployment-rate-hits-10-2-in-second-quarter-of-2025-yle-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/13005\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland’s unemployment rate hits 10.2% in second quarter of 2025 | Yle News"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were 27,000 more unemployed people during April\u2013June than in the same period last year, according to Statistics Finland.<\/p>\n

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In April\u2013June, there were 18,000 fewer employed women than a year earlier. File photo from 2024. Image: Henrietta Hassinen \/ Yle<\/p>\n

Finland\u2019s unemployment rate climbed to 10.2 percent in the second quarter of the year, according to Statistics Finland’s latest Labour Force Survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There were 27,000 more unemployed people in April\u2013June than in the same period last year, when the rate was 9.3 percent.<\/p>\n

The agency reported that the average number of unemployed people in April\u2013June was around 297,000.<\/p>\n

As unemployment rose, the number of employed people fell in the second quarter. In April\u2013June, there were 14,000 fewer employed than in the same period last year.<\/p>\n

On average, just over 2.6 million people were employed during the period, with a margin of error of \u00b118,000. The total number of hours worked also declined by just over two percent.<\/p>\n

The decline in the number of employed people was mainly due to a drop in female-dominated sectors, according to the agency. In April\u2013June, there were 18,000 fewer employed women than a year earlier, while the number of employed men rose by 5,000.<\/p>\n

Employment fell the most in wholesale and retail trade, while the construction sector saw the biggest growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were 27,000 more unemployed people during April\u2013June than in the same period last year, according to Statistics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-13005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}