EUROSTAT - European Union Statistical Office
EUROSTAT - European Union Statistical Office
09/12/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/12/2025 03:16
Employment rate up in Q2 2025
In the second quarter of 2025, the employment rate of people aged 20-64 in the EU stood at 76.2%, up from 76.1% in the first quarter of 2025.
Labour market slack - all persons who have an unmet need for employment, including unemployed people - stood at 10.9% of the extended labour force aged 20-64 in the second quarter of 2025, stable compared with the first quarter of 2025.
This information comes from data on the labour market in the second quarter of 2025 published today by Eurostat. This article presents only a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article.
Source datasets: lfsi_emp_q and lfsi_sla_q
Between the first and the second quarter of 2025, Latvia (+1.3 percentage points (pp)), Estonia (+0.8 pp) and Belgium (+0.7 pp) registered the highest increases in the employment rate among the 18 EU countries where employment rose. The employment rate remained stable in the Netherlands and Sweden, and decreased in 7 EU countries, with the biggest decreases recorded in Hungary (-0.5 pp) and Italy (-0.3 pp).
Source dataset: lfsi_emp_q
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