{"id":420278,"date":"2025-03-04T13:03:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/03\/04\/disoccupazione-ue-stabile-italia-piu-alta\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T14:29:20","slug":"eurozone-unemployment-at-6-2-percent-in-italy-it-falls-but-stays-among-the-highest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/03\/04\/eurozone-unemployment-at-6-2-percent-in-italy-it-falls-but-stays-among-the-highest\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurozone unemployment at 6.2 percent. In Italy, it falls but stays among the highest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – In January 2025,<\/strong> the\u00a0seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the eurozone<\/strong> stood at 6.2 percent<\/strong> (5.8 percent in the EU as a whole), remaining stable compared to December 2024 but\u00a0slightly\u00a0below<\/a><\/strong> the 6.5 percent recorded in January 2024 (6.1 percent in the EU). Italy <\/strong>saw the same trend, with the jobless rate <\/strong>falling from 7.1 percent in January 2024 to 6.4 percent in December to stabilize at 6.3 percent<\/strong> in January 2025.<\/p>\n

Data<\/a> published by Eurostat<\/strong> this morning (March 4)\u00a0estimates that in January, Europeans without jobs decreased by 510,000, including 194,000 in Italy, compared to a year ago.<\/p>\n

Despite the actual drop in Italian unemployment<\/strong>, which is just half a percentage point higher than the EU average, Italy is still among the worst performers<\/strong> in Europe in the employment sphere. The youth<\/strong> unemployment rate (15-24 years old) fell\u00a0to 18.7 percent (0.3 percent lower than in December 2024), yet it remains the eighth highest in the Union, whose average is stable at 14.6 percent. Istat said<\/a> that the 25-34-year-old unemployed bracket\u00a0in Italy recorded an increase in the first month of 2025, while when looking at the gender-adjusted unemployment rate, our country sees a slight decrease in male unemployment, which falls from 5.7 percent in December 2024 to 5.6 percent in January 2025 (the sixth highest in the EU).<\/p>\n

However, the figure that brings less honor to Italy is the female unemployment rate<\/strong>, which remains unchanged from the last month of last year at 7.3 percent, the third highest in Europe<\/strong> (lower only than Greece and Spain) and far from the EU average of 6.0 percent.<\/p>\n

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