In the first quarter of 2025, the employment rate of people aged 20-64 in the EU stood at 76.1%, up from 76.0% in the fourth quarter of 2024.
Labour market slack - all persons who have an unmet need for employment, including unemployed people - amounted to 10.9% of the extended labour force aged 20-64 in the first quarter of 2025 (an increase of 0.1 percentage points (pp) compared with the fourth quarter of 2024).
This information comes from data on the labour market in the first quarter of 2025 published today by Eurostat. This article presents only a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article.
Labour market slack and employment rate in the EU, Q1 2013 to Q1 2025. Bar and line chart - Click below to see full dataset. (....)