Unemployed Persons, Total (Monthly, SA)

Reviewed series · Labor · Monthly · thousand persons · EUROSTAT.UNEMP.LEVEL.M

Both sexes. Youth rate denominator is the youth labour force, not all young people; total unemployment follows the published TOTAL age selection. Seasonally adjusted, not calendar adjusted. Values retain published units; no scaling, rebasing, interpolation or imputation by SOTW. Dataset updated timestamp is not an original observation release date or publisher vintage. Commercial geography policy reviewed 2026-10-10: EU/EFTA/official candidates only; UK, Kosovo and other noneligible countries excluded; CH/LI declaring-country commodity trade excluded.

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Latest reading by geography

Sorted by value, highest first. Each row keeps its own period, and national definitions can differ, so the order is not a like for like ranking.

Unemployed Persons, Total (Monthly, SA): latest reading for 35 geographies, with the period of each. Source: Eurostat.
#Country or areaValue (thousand persons)PeriodHistory
European Union (EU27)13,773.02026-09History
Euro area (EA21)11,555.02026-09History
1TürkiyeTUR2,967.02026-09History
2FranceFRA2,732.02026-09History
3SpainESP2,600.02026-09History
4GermanyDEU1,773.02026-09History
5ItalyITA1,620.02026-09History
6PolandPOL596.02026-09History
7RomaniaROU517.02026-09History
8SwedenSWE498.02026-09History
9NetherlandsNLD408.02026-09History
10GreeceGRC360.02026-09History
11BelgiumBEL329.02026-09History
12FinlandFIN317.02026-09History
13PortugalPRT313.02026-09History
14AustriaAUT296.02026-09History
15SwitzerlandCHE264.02026-06History
16DenmarkDNK227.02026-09History
17HungaryHUN225.02026-09History
18Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIH161.02026-08History
19NorwayNOR156.02026-09History
20SlovakiaSVK156.02026-09History
21CzechiaCZE154.02026-09History
22IrelandIRL144.02026-10History
23BulgariaBGR103.02026-09History
24LithuaniaLTU97.02026-09History
25North MacedoniaMKD84.02026-09History
26CroatiaHRV78.02026-09History
27LatviaLVA69.02026-09History
28EstoniaEST59.02026-09History
29SloveniaSVN37.02026-09History
30LuxembourgLUX26.02026-09History
31CyprusCYP21.02026-09History
32IcelandISL14.02026-09History
33MaltaMLT12.02026-09History

Source: Eurostat. 35 geographies, periods 2026-06-01 to 2026-10-01. n/a means the source value is missing or withheld.

Source: Eurostat, une_rt_m, accessed 2026-11-11. Reuse permitted under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU. SOTW selected dimensions and geographies; Eurostat is not responsible for this republication.

Licence: EU-2011-833. Reuse remains subject to the source terms. Publisher page: https://doi.org/10.2908/une_rt_m