";s:4:"text";s:4191:" The unemployment rate in Spain in August 2019 was 14 percent. Eurozone Construction Activity Drops for 7th Month, Eurozone Retail Sales Easily Beat Forecasts, Eurozone Composite PMI Revised Slightly Higher, Eurozone Services PMI Revised Slightly Higher, Eurozone Consumer Prices Fall Most in 4-1/2 Years, Eurozone Producer Prices Edge Higher in August, Eurozone Jobless Rate Rises to Over 2-Year High, Eurozone Manufacturing PMI at Over 2 Year-High, ECB to Consider Inflation Overshooting: Lagarde, WTI Rises as Hurricane Delta Approaches US Gulf Coast, Hungary Inflation Rate Below Forecasts in September. In 2019, the year before COVID-19 containment measures were widely introduced by EU Member States, unemployment rates continued to vary widely across the NUTS 2 regions of the EU’s 27 Member States. Regional unemployment rates and the EU average. This is list of European countries by unemployment and employment rate. The Euro Area seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate edged up to 7.4 percent in May 2020, remaining close to March's record low of 7.1 percent and below market expectations of 7.7 percent, as the governments' measures to protect jobs during the coronavirus crises along with an increase in the number of inactive people due to the coronavirus crisis have been supporting the labor market. The number of unemployed persons increased by 344 thousand to 12.793 million, despite temporary government job-support programs and the relaxation of some containment measures. The Euro Area seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate increased to 8.1 percent in August 2020 from an upwardly revised 8 percent in the previous month and matching market expectations. In Euro Area, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
The youth unemployment rate, measuring job seekers aged 15 to 24, went up to 18.1 percent from 17.8 percent in July. Among the bloc's largest economies, the highest jobless rates were recorded in Spain (14.5 percent), France (8.1 percent) and Italy (7.8 percent), while the lowest was observed in Germany (3.9 percent).
The number of unemployed persons rose by 251 thousand to 13.188 million, despite temporary government job-support programs and the relaxation of some containment measures. List of European regions by unemployment rate, List of European countries by budget revenues, List of European countries by GDP (nominal) per capita, List of European countries by GDP (PPP) per capita, List of European countries by GNI (nominal) per capita, List of European countries by GNI (PPP) per capita, List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita, List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita, "Employment to population ratio, 15+, total (%) (national estimate) - Albania", "Unemployment by sex and age - monthly average", "Employment rate by sex, age group 20-64", Unemployment in Belarus remains at 1% as of 1 January, Labour Force Survey 2018 as of April 2018 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Employment rate in the EU27 fell to 64.6% in 2009, Sovereign states and dependent territories, Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia (CUBKR), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_unemployment_rate&oldid=975713346, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using image label with a wide image, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 30 August 2020, at 00:56.