Italy
Unemployment rate
The unemployment rate measures the share of the labor force actively looking for work but not employed. It is a lagging but essential gauge of labor-market slack.
Unemployment Rate - Italy
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The reading right now
As of January 2025, Unemployment rate for Italy stood at 6.39%. That is down 0.11 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 7.62%, ranging from a low of 6.39% in January 2025 to a high of 9.5% in January 2021. The current reading sits 2.7 percentage points below its trailing ten-year mean of 9.06%.
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