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Unemployment rate regional ranking

Regional ranking for Unemployment rate across Europe.

Indicator: unemployment_rate Year: 2025 Granularity: nuts2

Ranking controls

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Eurostat indicator: Unemployment rate

Burden ranking

Regions most affected by employment

Higher values indicate higher burden.

Highest burden: Ciudad de Melilla (Spain) | Lowest burden: Střední Čechy (Czechia)

Editorial summary

Key takeaways

  • Highest burden: Ciudad de Melilla (Spain) | Lowest burden: Střední Čechy (Czechia)
  • Unemployment rate ranking uses nuts2 scope for year 2025.
  • Top position: Ciudad de Melilla (24.90).
  • Lower end: Střední Čechy (1.50).
  • Current ranking includes 260 regions.

Editorial detail

Editorial insights

Highest burden: Ciudad de Melilla (Spain) | Lowest burden: Střední Čechy (Czechia)

Indicator: Unemployment rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Ciudad de Melilla

    24.90

    -3.40
  2. 1
    ▲ 2

    Mayotte

    24.90

    -2.00
  3. 3
    ▼ 1

    Ciudad de Ceuta

    24.30

    -3.20
  4. 4
    ▲ 1

    Guyane

    16.90

    -0.10
  5. 5
    ▲ 1

    Guadeloupe

    16.60

    -0.20
  6. 6
    ▼ 2

    La Réunion

    16.30

    -1.00
  7. 7
    ▲ 11

    Dytiki Makedonia

    15.30

    +2.80
  8. 8
    ▼ 1

    Andalucía

    15.20

    -1.30
  9. 9
    ▲ 1

    Extremadura

    14.80

    -0.70
  10. 10
    ▼ 1

    Campania

    13.90

    -1.70
  11. 11

    Canarias

    13.50

    -0.30
  12. 12
    ▲ 7

    Martinique

    13.40

    +1.10
  13. 13
    ▼ 1

    Castilla-La Mancha

    12.80

    -0.50
  14. 14
    ▲ 8

    Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

    12.60

    +0.80
  15. 15
    ▼ 1

    Sicilia

    12.20

    -0.80
  16. 16

    Región de Murcia

    12.10

    -0.60
  17. 17
    ▲ 4

    Southern and Eastern Serbia

    12.00

    -0.20
  18. 18
    ▼ 3

    Kentriki Makedonia

    11.70

    -1.10
  19. 19
    ▼ 2

    Comunitat Valenciana

    11.60

    -1.00
  20. 20
    ▼ 1

    North Macedonia

    11.50

    -0.80
  21. 21
    ▲ 7

    Sud-Est

    11.30

    +1.40
  22. 22
    ▲ 1

    Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki

    10.60

    -1.00
  23. 22
    ▲ 22

    Helsinki-Uusimaa

    10.60

    +1.70
  24. 24
    ▲ 6

    Sydsverige

    10.30

    +0.60
  25. 25
    ▲ 14

    Puglia

    10.00

    +0.70

Ranking highlights

2025 values. Changes compare 2025 vs 2024.

Unemployment rate

Increase = worse Decrease = better

By level in 2025

Top 5 regions

2025 values

  1. #1 Ciudad de Melilla 24.90
  2. #1 Mayotte 24.90
  3. #3 Ciudad de Ceuta 24.30
  4. #4 Guyane 16.90
  5. #5 Guadeloupe 16.60

Bottom 5 regions

2025 values

  1. #260 Střední Čechy 1.50
  2. #257 Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano / Bozen 1.80
  3. #257 Praha 1.80
  4. #257 Bucureşti-Ilfov 1.80
  5. #256 Yugozapaden 1.90

By change (2025 vs 2024)

Largest increase vs previous year

2025 vs 2024

  1. #1 Franche-Comté +2.90
  2. #2 Dytiki Makedonia +2.80
  3. #3 Övre Norrland +2.10
  4. #4 Lubelskie +2.00
  5. #5 Vest +1.80

Largest decrease vs previous year

2025 vs 2024

  1. #1 Ionia Nisia -7.20
  2. #2 Thessalia -3.70
  3. #3 Kriti -3.50
  4. #4 Ciudad de Melilla -3.40
  5. #5 Calabria -3.30