In 2023 6.1 percent of potential labor market participants in the European Union, aged between 15 and 74 years, will be unemployed. This is the lowest unemployment rate in the EU since 2014, according to data from European statistics agency Eurostat, published today on its website.
Among young people aged between 15 and 29 years, the unemployed account for 6.3 percent of all potential labor market participants in this age group.
This country is one of the European Union countries with the lowest percentage of youth unemployment Czech Republic (2.4 percent), followed by Bulgaria (3.2 percent) and Germany (3.3 percent). Their share is the highest in the year Sweden (10.9 percent), Spain (10.8 percent) and Greece (9.8 percent).
Long-term unemployment reached 2.1 percent of the total workforce in the EU last year. This is the lowest long-term unemployment rate in the EU since 2009. Such statistics are starting to be made.
Among European Union countries in 2023, the number of long-term unemployed was the highest in 2016 Greece (6.2 percent), followed by Spain (4.3 percent) and Italy (4.2 percent).
The number of long-term unemployed was the lowest in 2017 Denmark And Dutch (0.5 percent), followed by the Czech Republic, Malta and Poland (0.8 percent).