Eurozone Unemployment Rate
The share of people across the euro area who want a job and are actively looking, but can't find one.
6.4%
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Jan 2000 to Aug 2026
Source: Eurostat une_rt_m · harmonised unemployment rate, euro area, seasonally adjusted, monthly.
Eurozone Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In the Eurozone, the unemployment rate rose by 0.1pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 6.3% in Aug 2025.
It is the highest reading since Feb 2024.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 6.2% in Oct 2024 to 7.5% in Aug 2021.
Its average since Jan 2000 is 8.9%, and the latest reading is below that.
The Eurozone is 20th of 62 countries in our Unemployment Rate by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- Eurostat
- Series
- une_rt_m
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- %
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
Data refreshed 2026-10-28. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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