The unemployed persons registered at the District Labour Offices on the last day of July 2025 reached 11.088 persons. Based on the seasonally adjusted data which reflect the trend of unemployment, the number of registered unemployed for July 2025 increased to 10.081 persons, in comparison to 9.947 in the previous month. (Table 1)

In comparison with July 2024, a decrease of 789 persons or 6,6% was recorded. This decrease is mainly attributed to the sectors of education, 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            July 11.088 10.081        June 9.153 9.947        May 7.378 9.873        April 8.118 9.864        March 11.073 10.200        February 12.761 10.262        January  13.147 10.382 2024            December 12.382 10.452        November 11.087 10.346        October 7.781 10.228        September 8.142 10.325        August 12.079 10.862        July 11.877 10.912        June 10.112 10.918        May 8.159 10.713        April 9.343 11.133        March 12.277 11.354        February 14.304 11.579        January 14.699 11.771 2023     December 13.670 11.666 November 12.662 11.786 October 9.232 11.944 September 9.693 12.139 August 13.256 12.199 July 13.187 12.347 June 11.747 12.617       Table 2 Nace Rev.2 Economic Activity Registered Unemployed     (actual data) July 2024  June 2025 July 2025 A Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing 73 55 49 B Mining and Quarrying 11 7 8 C Manufacturing 552 402 421 D Electricity, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply 6 5 6 E Water Supply, Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation Activities 25 26 21 F Construction 573 401 416 G Wholesale and Retail Trade, Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles 1.476 1.297 1.348 H Transportation and Storage 308 244 275 I Accommodation and Food Service Activities 858 762 773 J Information and Communication 470 412 468 K Financial and Insurance Activities 533 380 379 L Real Estate Activities 96 96 98 M Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities 767 743 746 N Administrative and Support Service Activities 320 322 319 O Public Administration and Defense, Compulsory Social Security 2.441 2.171 3.079 P Education 2.086 895 1.627 Q Human Health and Social Work Activities 283 256 298 R Arts, Entertainment and Recreation 235 184 223 S Other Service Activities 246 202 223 T Activities of Households 13 11 16 U Activities of Extra-territorial Organizations and Bodies 12 8 6   Newcomers 493 274 289   Total 11.877 9.153 11.088

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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