methods, notes and classification Unemployment rate by sex methods, notes and classification

The unemployment rate represents unemployed persons as a percentage of the labour force based on International Labour Office (ILO) definition. The labour force is the total number of people employed and unemployed. Unemployed persons comprise persons aged 15 to 74 who:- are without work during the reference week;- are available to start work within the next two weeks;- and have been actively seeking work in the past four weeks or had already found a job to start within the next three months.Data are presented in seasonally adjusted form.

    • Seasonal adjustment
      • 0 Seasonally adjusted data, not calendar adjusted data
    • Age class
      • 0 Total
    • Sex
      • 0 Total
      • 1 Males
      • 2 Females
    • Unit of measure
      • 0 Percentage of population in the labour force
    • Geopolitical entity (reporting)
      • 0 European Union - 27 countries (from 2020)
      • 1 Euro area – 20 countries (from 2023)
      • 2 Belgium
      • 3 Bulgaria
      • 4 Czechia
      • 5 Denmark
      • 6 Germany
      • 7 Estonia
      • 8 Ireland
      • 9 Greece
      • a Spain
      • b France
      • c Croatia
      • d Italy
      • e Cyprus
      • f Latvia
      • g Lithuania
      • h Luxembourg
      • i Hungary
      • j Malta
      • k Netherlands
      • l Austria
      • m Poland
      • n Portugal
      • o Romania
      • p Slovenia
      • q Slovakia
      • r Finland
      • s Sweden
      • t Iceland
      • u Norway
      • v Switzerland
      • w Türkiye
      • x United States
      • y Japan