{"id":175715,"date":"2025-11-11T22:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/175715\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:49:22","slug":"eu-regions-long-term-unemployment-rate-0-4-to-16-3-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/175715\/","title":{"rendered":"EU regions long-term unemployment rate: 0.4% to 16.3% – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, 4.2 million people across the EU<\/a> had been unemployed for a year or more. The long-term unemployment<\/a> rate, defined as the share of the labour force (aged 15 to 74 years) that has been unemployed for 12 months or more, stood at 1.9%. As such, around 1 in 3 unemployed people in the EU had been jobless long-term.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of the 195 regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics<\/a> (NUTS 2) for which data are available, 82 recorded rates above the EU average, 106 had rates below the average, and 7 had the same rate.<\/p>\n

As with the overall unemployment rate, some of the highest long-term unemployment rates were observed in southern EU countries and several of France\u2019s outermost regions:\u00a0<\/p>\n