Eurozone unemployment rate holds steady at record low
By Benjamin Chiou
Date: Thursday 31 Jul 2025
(Sharecast News) - The eurozone jobless rate stayed at a record-low rate in June, with the number of young unemployed people across the single-currency region dropping to a two-year low.
The euro area seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.2% last month, according to figures out on Thursday from Eurostat.
The jobless rate held at an all-time low for the third straight month after falling from 6.4% in March. Economists had pencilled in a rise to 6.3%.
Some 10.7m people across the eurozone were without work but available to start work in June, though down 62,000 compared with May.
Spain continued to register the highest jobless rate across the region at 10.4% in June, though down from 10.6% in May; while the lowest rate was seen in Malta at 2.5%, down from 2.6% the month before.
Meanwhile, youth unemployment fell by 34,000 to 2.24m, with the jobless rate easing from 14.3% to 14.1% - the lowest since April 2023.
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