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Italy Unemployment Rate
Last Release
May 31, 2025
Actual
6.5
Units In
%
Previous
5.9
Frequency
Monthly
Next Release
Jul 31, 2025
Time to Release
27 Days 8 Hours
Highest | Lowest | Average | Date Range | Source |
13.3 Nov 2014 | 5.7 Nov 2024 | 9.34 % | 1983-2025 | National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) |
In Italy, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
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The unemployment rate in Italy surged to 6.5% in May of 2025 from the upwardly revised 6.1% in the previous month, well above market expectations that it would have eased to 6%, to mark the highest proportion of joblessness in nearly one year. The number of unemployed rose by 113,000 to 1,691,000, also the highest in 11 months, to reflect the unexpected softening of the Italian labor market. In the meantime, the number of employed individuals rose by a 80,000 to 24,301,000, the highest on record. The rise in unemployment was owed to a jump in the labor force, with the participation rate rising by 0.4 percentage points to a record high of 67.4%.
Italy Unemployment Rate History
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