The unemployed persons registered at the District Labour Offices on the last day of June 2025 reached 9.153. Based on the seasonally adjusted data which reflect the trend of unemployment, the number of registered unemployed for June 2025 increased to 9.833 persons, in comparison to 9.780 in the previous month (Table 1).

In comparison with June 2024, a decrease of 959 persons or 9,5% was recorded. This decrease is mainly attributed to the sectors of education, financial and insurance activities, construction, manufacturing, as well as to the decrease recorded for newcomers in the labour market (Table 2).

Table 1 Month and Year Registered Unemployed – Actual Data Registered Unemployed – Seasonally Adjusted Data 2025        June 9.153 9.833        May 7.378 9.780        April 8.118 9.789        March 11.073 10.148        February 12.761 10.225        January 13.147 10.367 2024        December 12.382 10.451        November 11.087 10.363        October 7.781 10.258        September 8.142 10.373        August 12.079 10.929        July 11.877 10.974        June 10.112 10.866        May 8.159 10.674        April 9.343 11.104        March 12.277 11.330        February 14.304 11.566        January 14.699 11.763 2023 December 13.670 11.667 November 12.662 11.792 October 9.232 11.958 September 9.693 12.159 August 13.256 12.228 July 13.187 12.372 June 11.747 12.595 May 10.357 13.090 Table 2 Nace Rev.2 Economic Activity Registered Unemployed (actual data) June 2024 May 2025 June 2025 A Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing 60 52 55 B Mining and Quarrying 8 4 7 C Manufacturing 528 458 402 D Electricity, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply 5 5 5 E Water Supply, Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation Activities 27 27 26 F Construction 562 426 401 G Wholesale and Retail Trade, Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles 1.421 1.400 1.297 H Transportation and Storage 300 264 244 I Accommodation and Food Service Activities 878 934 762 J Information and Communication 440 416 412 K Financial and Insurance Activities 566 405 380 L Real Estate Activities 95 100 96 M Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities 775 754 743 N Administrative and Support Service Activities 340 337 322 O Public Administration and Defense, Compulsory Social Security 1.694 658 2.171 P Education 1.154 263 895 Q Human Health and Social Work Activities 253 230 256 R Arts, Entertainment and Recreation 238 147 184 S Other Service Activities 246 184 202 T Activities of Households 12 9 11 U Activities of Extra-territorial Organizations and Bodies 9 8 8   Newcomers 501 297 274   Total 10.112 7.378 9.153

Methodological Information

Registered Unemployed

The number of registered unemployed concerns the persons aged 15 years and over who apply at the District and Local Labour Offices of the Department of Labour to seek employment and are registered as unemployed. These persons have to be able and available for work and must be actively looking for a job. The monthly number of registered unemployed concerns the persons who during the last day of the month have an active application for seeking employment.

The number of registered unemployed does not include self-employed or persons who seek part-time employment, nor persons who seek employment in certain areas or for a specific employer.

Seasonally Adjusted Data

Seasonal adjustment is a statistical technique that removes the seasonal component of a time series, making more visible the underlying trend in the change of a characteristic. CYSTAT uses the JDemetra+ 2.2.2 software which was developed by Eurostat. Seasonally adjusted series are produced by the TRAMO&SEATS algorithm. It should be noted that due to seasonal adjustment, the whole series with the monthly estimates is recalculated every time a new month is added in time series. As a result, estimations for the previous months are often revised. In March 2020, a readjustment of the applied model was implemented.

Methodological Changes

According to information provided by the Department of Labour, from Tuesday, 15 June 2021, the automatic renewal of registrations was terminated and the online platform of the Public Employment Service was activated to allow the registration of a new job application, its renewal, as well as a job vacancy registration. This settlement may affect the comparison of the monthly unemployment data recorded through this procedure with the data recorded from the previous procedures.

Classification System

Registered unemployed by economic activity are published based on the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community, Rev. 2 (NACE Rev.2).

For more information, visit the CYSTAT Portal, subtheme Labour Market, CYSTAT-DB (Online Database), Methodological Information, or contact Mr Christophoros Michaelides at 22602154 or via email: cmichaelides@cystat.mof.gov.cy, or Ms Maria Hadjiprokopi at 22602146 or via email: mhadjiprokopi@cystat.mof.gov.cy

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