Luxembourg Unemployment Rate
The share of people aged 15 to 74 in the labour force who want a job and are actively looking, but can't find one.
7.3%
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Jan 1983 to Aug 2026
Source: Eurostat une_rt_m · unemployment rate, ILO definition, ages 15 to 74, seasonally adjusted, monthly.
Luxembourg Unemployment Rate in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Luxembourg, the unemployment rate rose by 0.9pp over the year to Aug 2026, from 6.4% in Aug 2025.
It is the highest reading since Jun 2020.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 4.4% in Apr 2022 to 7.3% in Aug 2026.
Its average since Jan 1983 is 4.1%, and the latest reading is above that.
Luxembourg is 12th of 53 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
ADEM's registered unemployment is a different measure.
Data refreshed 2026-10-11. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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