In the April–June 2025 period, the average number of employed people aged 15–74 was 4.66 million, down by 49,000 from a year earlier.
Employment declined by 29,000 among men to 2.47 million and by 20,000 among women to 2.19 million.
The decrease was driven largely by a drop in the prime working-age population, those aged 25–54.
Of the total, 4.49 million people worked in the domestic primary labor market, 57,000 fewer than a year earlier. The number of public workers and those employed abroad remained stable at 66,000 and 105,000, respectively.
The employment rate for people aged 15–64 was 74.9%, essentially unchanged from a year earlier, with 78.8% for men and 71% for women.
The average number of unemployed people in April–June was 219,000, putting the jobless rate at 4.5%. Men accounted for 120,000 of the unemployed and women 99,000, with unemployment rates of 4.6% and 4.3%, respectively.
Job seekers searched for work for an average of 12.2 months. About 41.3% of the unemployed had been looking for a job for less than three months, while 31.8% had been unemployed for at least a year.
The National Employment Service reported that the number of registered job seekers at the end of June fell 1.4% from a year earlier to 220,000.
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