The unemployed persons registered at the District Labour Offices on the last day of September 2025 reached 7.624 persons. Based on the seasonally adjusted data which reflect the trend of unemployment, the number of registered unemployed for September 2025 decreased to 9.711 persons, in comparison to 10.053 in the previous month. (Table 1)

In comparison with September 2024, a decrease of 518 persons or 6,4% was recorded. This decrease is mainly attributed to the sectors of trade, construction, financial and insurance activities, 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            September 7.624 9.711        August 11.556 10.053        July 11.088 10.008        June 9.153 9.890        May 7.378 9.844        April 8.118 9.841        March 11.073 10.200        February 12.761 10.270        January  13.147 10.409 2024            December 12.382 10.487        November 11.087 10.399        October 7.781 10.293        September 8.142 10.374        August 12.079 10.751        July 11.877 10.883        June 10.112 10.899        May 8.159 10.696        April 9.343 11.128        March 12.277 11.350        February 14.304 11.586        January 14.699 11.780 2023     December 13.670 11.683 November 12.662 11.807 October 9.232 11.974 September 9.693 12.159 August 13.256 12.153       Table 2 Nace Rev. 2 Economic Activity Registered Unemployed      (actual data) September 2024 August 2025 September 2025 A Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing 65 49 53 B Mining and Quarrying 8 9 7 C Manufacturing 527 433 453 D Electricity, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply 3 6 9 E Water Supply, Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation Activities 26 21 21 F Construction 534 408 419 G Wholesale and Retail Trade, Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles 1.482 1.363 1.364 H Transportation and Storage 268 296 266 I Accommodation and Food Service Activities 830 798 768 J Information and Communication 451 451 432 K Financial and Insurance Activities 466 372 375 L Real Estate Activities 89 97 92 M Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities 723 792 780 N Administrative and Support Service Activities 331 340 355 O Public Administration and Defense, Compulsory Social Security 758 3.214 866 P Education 489 1.818 422 Q Human Health and Social Work Activities 254 348 285 R Arts, Entertainment and Recreation 166 208 169 S Other Service Activities 191 219 188 T Activities of Households 14 15 10 U Activities of Extra-territorial Organizations and Bodies 6 9 10   Newcomers 461 290 280   Total 8.142 11.556 7.624

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 June 15, 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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