The Statistical Service of Cyprus (CyStat) announced last Friday that total employment in the second quarter of 2025 reached 508,291 persons, marking a 1.8% increase compared with the same period last year. Of the total, 455,484 were employees, while 52,807 were self-employed.<\/p>\n
The highest growth rates were recorded in information and communications technology, wholesale and retail trade including repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, and accommodation and food service activities.<\/p>\n
Actual hours worked during the second quarter were estimated at 236.2 million, representing a 2.2% rise year-on-year. The largest increases in hours worked were also seen in information and communication technology, trade and motor vehicle repair, accommodation and food services.<\/p>\n
In a separate report published the previous week, CyStat had said unemployment in Cyprus stood at 4.3% in the second quarter of 2025, down from 4.6% a year earlier.<\/p>\n
The number of the unemployed reached 22,663, split between 11,019 men and 11,644 women, compared with 23,760 in the April-June period of last year. The labor force came to 528,981 people, representing 65.4% of the population, up from 511,423 a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Statistical Service of Cyprus (CyStat) announced last Friday that total employment in the second quarter of 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,30432,101,4084,134],"class_list":["post-141156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-cyprus","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}