Key data points
Last release
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Observation period
Dec 2025
Next release
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Forecast
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Highest
12.20 % on Jun 30, 2013
Lowest
6.20 % on Dec 31, 2025
About Euro Area unemployment rate
In Euro Area, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To calculate Euro Area unemployment rate you need to take the number of the country residents without a job and looking for work divided by the total number of residents in the labor force.
The lowest ever Euro Area unemployment rate is 6.20%.
The highest figure Euro Area unemployment rate has ever reached is 12.20%.
Last month Euro Area unemployment rate was 6.20%, and the month before it reached 6.30%.