July 2025 (definitive estimates):

• The unemployment rate stood at 6.0%, down by 0.1 percentage points (pp) from June 2025, by 0.2 pp from April 2025 and by 0.5 pp from July 2024.

• The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 10.1%, down from the three periods under comparison: previous month (0.2 pp), three months earlier (0.4 pp) and from the same month of 2024 (1.0 pp).

August 2025 (provisional estimates):

• The unemployment rate stood at 6.1%, up from July 2025 (0.1 pp) and down from May 2025 (0.1 pp) and from August 2024 (0.2 pp).

• The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 10.4%, up from the previous month (0.3 pp) and down from three months before (0.1 pp) and from the same month of 2024 (0.4 pp).

• In August 2025, the employed population (5,265.4 thousand) reached its highest value since February 1998.