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The unemployment rate stood at 5.9% and the labour underutilisation rate at 10.1%
Monthly Employment and Unemployment Estimates
The unemployment rate stood at 5.9% and the labour underutilisation rate at 10.1% - October 2025
28 November 2025

Summary

September 2025 (definitive estimates):

The unemployment rate stood at 6.0%, the same value as in August 2025, but down by 0.1 percentage points (pp) from June 2025 and by 0.5 pp from September 2024.

The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 10.2%, as in the previous month and three months earlier, but down from the same month of 2024 (0.7 pp).

October 2025 (provisional estimates):

The unemployment rate stood at 5.9%, down from September 2025 (0.1 pp) and from October 2024 (0.7 pp) and equal to July 2025.

The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 10.1%, down from the previous month and from the same month of 2024 (0.1 pp and 0.9 pp, respectively) and equal to three months before.

In October 2025, the unemployment rate for men (5.2%) reached its lowest value in the last 10 years.


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