Ireland\u2019s youth unemployment rate continues to far outpace the national average, according to labour market data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).<\/p>\n
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for 15 to 24-year-olds stood at 13.4 per cent in November 2025, unchanged from October.<\/p>\n
This compares with a national unemployment rate of just 4.9 per cent, highlighting a stark divide between young workers and the wider labour force.<\/p>\n
By contrast, people aged 25-74 recorded a much lower unemployment rate of 3.7 per cent, down slightly from 3.8 per cent in October.<\/p>\n
Overall, the national unemployment rate edged down from 5 per cent in October to 4.9 per cent in November, though it remains higher than the 4.2 per cent recorded in November 2024.<\/p>\n
Differences by sex<\/p>\n
The CSO figures show only slight gender variation in unemployment rates:<\/p>\n
Male unemployment: 4.9 per cent in November, down from 5 per cent in October.
\nFemale unemployment: 5 per cent in November, unchanged from the previous month.<\/p>\n
The seasonally adjusted number of unemployed people fell to 144,400 in November, down from 147,100 in October.<\/p>\n
This remains 23,200 higher than in November 2024.<\/p>\n
Unemployed males decreased to 75,000.
\nUnemployed females decreased to 69,400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s youth unemployment rate continues to far outpace the national average, according to labour market data released by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-178409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178409","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=178409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}