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Italy: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1919–2025 · 100 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
6.05%percent
Change on 2024
−0.5 pointsfrom 6.56%
Average, 2016–2025
9.08%10 years
Record high and low
12.8% (2014)low 0.70% (1926)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20315.99Forecast
20306.02Forecast
20296.00Forecast
20286.03Forecast
20275.70Forecast
20265.77Forecast
20256.05
20246.56
20237.68
20228.11
20219.55
20209.34
20199.90
201810.6
201711.3
201611.7

Sources

  • Jordà-Schularick-Taylor1919–2020
  • AMECO (European Commission)1960–2025
  • OECD Economic Outlook1960–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1970–2025
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • OECD Key Economic Indicators1983–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor2004–2025
  • Eurostat2009–2025
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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