{"id":229678,"date":"2025-12-12T19:14:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/229678\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:14:17","slug":"employment-rate-stable-in-q3-2025-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/229678\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment rate stable in Q3 2025 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the third quarter of 2025, the employment rate<\/a> of people aged 20-64 in the EU<\/a> stood at 76.2%, stable compared with the second quarter of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Labour market slack<\/a> \u2013 all persons who have an unmet need for employment, including unemployed people \u2013 stood at 11.0% of the extended labour force aged 20-64 in the third quarter of 2025, also stable compared with the second quarter of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This information comes from data on the labour market<\/a> in the third quarter of 2025, published today by Eurostat. This article presents only a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Labour<\/a><\/p>\n

Source datasets: lfsi_emp_q<\/a> and lfsi_sla_q<\/a><\/p>\n

Between the second and the third quarter of 2025, Malta (+1.2 percentage points (pp)), Estonia (+0.8 pp), as well as Croatia, Portugal and Romania (+0.6 pp each) registered the highest increases in the employment rate among the 15 EU countries where employment rose. The employment rate remained stable in Denmark and the Netherlands, and decreased in 10 EU countries, with the biggest decreases recorded in Belgium (-0.7 pp), Luxembourg and Ireland (-0.5 pp each).<\/p>\n

\"Change<\/a><\/p>\n

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