News Release<\/a> of 2 October 2025, the August 2025 unemployment rate for the euro area remained unchanged, while the unemployment rate for the EU has been revised from 5.9% to 6.0%. Among EU Member States, the rate has been revised by more than 0.1 percentage points (pp) downwards for Estonia (by 0.7 pp) and Portugal (by 0.2 pp). The rate has been revised by more than 0.1 percentage points (pp) upwards for Spain (by 0.2 pp).<\/p>\n Country notes<\/p>\n
Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden as well as Iceland and Norway: the trend component is used instead of the more volatile seasonally adjusted data.<\/p>\n
Estonia and Portugal: 3-month moving averages of EU-LFS data are used instead of pure monthly indicators.<\/p>\n
Methods and definitions<\/p>\n
Eurostat publishes harmonised unemployment rates for individual EU Member States, the euro area and the EU. These unemployment rates are based on the definition recommended by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The measurement is based on a harmonised data source, the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS).<\/p>\n
Based on the ILO definition, Eurostat defines unemployed persons as persons aged 15 to 74 who:<\/p>\n
The unemployment rate is the number of people unemployed as a percentage of the labour force.<\/p>\n
The labour force is the total number of people employed plus unemployed. In this news release unemployment rates are based on employment and unemployment data covering persons aged 15 to 74.<\/p>\n
The youth unemployment rate is the number of people aged 15 to 24 unemployed as a percentage of the labour force of the same age. Therefore, the youth unemployment rate should not be interpreted as the share of jobless people in the overall youth population.<\/p>\n
When data for the most recent month are not available for a Member State, EU and EA aggregates are calculated using the latest data available for that Member State.<\/p>\n
Geographical information<\/p>\n
Euro area (EA20): Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia and Finland.<\/p>\n
European Union (EU27): Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland and Sweden.<\/p>\n
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