{"id":219207,"date":"2025-12-06T22:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T22:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219207\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T22:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T22:21:14","slug":"youth-unemployment-remains-nearly-three-times-higher-than-national-rate-cso-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219207\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth unemployment remains nearly three times higher than national rate, CSO figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland\u2019s <strong>youth unemployment<\/strong> rate continues to far outpace the national average, according to labour market data released by the <strong>Central Statistics Office<\/strong> (CSO).<\/p>\n<p>The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for 15 to 24-year-olds stood at 13.4 per cent in November 2025, unchanged from October.<\/p>\n<p>This compares with a national unemployment rate of just 4.9 per cent, highlighting a stark divide between young workers and the wider labour force.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, people aged 25-74 recorded a much lower unemployment rate of 3.7 per cent, down slightly from 3.8 per cent in October.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the national unemployment rate edged down from 5 per cent in October to 4.9 per cent in November, though it remains higher than the 4.2 per cent recorded in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Differences by sex<\/p>\n<p>The CSO figures show only slight gender variation in unemployment rates:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc\">\n<li>Male unemployment: 4.9 per cent in November, down from 5 per cent in October.<\/li>\n<li>Female unemployment: 5 per cent in November, unchanged from the previous month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The seasonally adjusted number of unemployed people fell to 144,400 in November, down from 147,100 in October.<\/p>\n<p>This remains 23,200 higher than in November 2024.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc\">\n<li>Unemployed males decreased to 75,000.<\/li>\n<li>Unemployed females decreased to 69,400.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s youth unemployment rate continues to far outpace the national average, according to labour market data released by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,179,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-219207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115674958082486795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}