{"id":172881,"date":"2025-12-03T13:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/172881\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:12:15","slug":"unemployment-rate-at-8-6-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/172881\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment rate at 8.6% in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/unemployment_web-thumb-large--2.jpg\" alt=\"Unemployment rate at 8.6% in October\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/unemployment_web-thumb-large--2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in October 2025 amounted to 8.6% compared to 9.7% in October 2024, and the upwardly revised 8.7% in September 2025, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The number of employed people amounted to 4,347,352, increased by 44,904 as compared with October 2024 (1%) and increased by 20,586 compared with September 2025 (0.5%).<\/p>\n<p>The number of unemployed people amounted to 411,369, decreased by 50,326 as compared with October 2024 (-10.9%) and increased by 1,000 compared with September 2025 (0.2%).<\/p>\n<p>The number of people outside the labor force \u2013 i.e. those under the age of 75 that are neither working nor looking for a job \u2013 amounted to 2,982,942, decreased by 22,830 people as compared with October 2024 (-0.8%) and decreased by 24,180 compared with September 2025 (-0.8%).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in October 2025 amounted to 8.6% compared to 9.7% in October 2024, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,1392,61,60],"class_list":["post-172881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}