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In the May-July period, the average number of employed people aged 15-74 was 4.651 million, 29,000 fewer than a year earlier.
Employment among men was essentially unchanged at 2.471 million, while the number of employed women fell by 23,000 to 2.180 million.
A total of 4.459 million people worked in the domestic primary labor market, 47,000 fewer than in the same period of 2025. The number of public workers stood at 68,000, while 124,000 people worked abroad.
Among people aged 15-64, the employment rate was unchanged year-over-year at 75.3%. The rate stood at 79.1% for men and 71.5% for women.
The average number of unemployed people aged 15-74 stood at 225,000 in May-July, with the unemployment rate at 4.6%.
There were 113,000 unemployed men and 112,000 unemployed women. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.4% among men, while it rose to 4.9% among women.
The average duration of job searches was 12 months.
A total of 39.9% of unemployed people had been looking for work for less than three months, 2.6 percentage points lower than a year earlier. The share of long-term unemployed people who had been seeking work for at least a year rose by 5.5 percentage points to 34.7%.
According to administrative data from the National Employment Service, the number of registered job seekers stood at 216,000 at the end of July, down 2.3% year-over-year.
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