Austria Unemployment Rate

Last Release

Nov 30, 2025

Actual

7.2

Units In

7.2

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

N/A

Time to Release

N/A

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
12.8 Apr 2020	0.8 Aug 1974	5.22 %	1960-2025	Public Employment Service Austria (AMS)

In Austria, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.

Latest Updates

The unemployment rate in Austria rose to 7.5% in November 2025 from 7.2% in the same month a year earlier, marking the highest reading since February. The total number of unemployed persons increased by 16,000 year-on-year, reaching a nine-month high of 320,400. Compared with October, the number of unemployed also rose by 9,900. Breaking the figures down by gender, the jobless rate for women came in at 7.3%, 0.4 percentage points higher than in November 2024, while the rate for men rose by 0.3 percentage points to 7.7%. Additionally, around 399,000 people were registered as unemployed or undergoing training in October.