{"id":383495,"date":"2026-03-13T17:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/383495\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:49:17","slug":"employment-rate-up-in-q4-2025-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/383495\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment rate up in Q4 2025 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the fourth quarter of 2025, the employment rate<\/a> of people aged 20-64 in the EU<\/a> stood at 76.3%, up from 76.2% in the third 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 fourth quarter of 2025, stable compared with the third quarter of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This information comes from\u00a0data on the labour market <\/a>in the fourth 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 third and the fourth quarter of 2025, Cyprus (+0.6 percentage points<\/a> (pp)), as well as Austria, Latvia, Greece and Spain (+0.4 pp each) registered the highest increases in the employment rate among the 11 EU countries where employment rose. The employment rate remained stable in 5 EU countries and decreased in another 11 EU countries, with the biggest decreases recorded in Luxembourg (-1.1 pp), Denmark and Estonia (-0.6 pp each), as well as in Malta (-0.5 pp).<\/p>\n

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

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