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Austria: Unemployment rate

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Austria

Latest value

· 2025

5.70% of labour force

EU 6.25 · -0.5 pp vs Europe

European ranking

19 / 34

Up 1 positions compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

9.2M

Country population · 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures unemployed people as a percentage of the labour force aged 15 to 74.

Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.

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· 2025 · 9 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1

    Vienna

    +73.68

    9.90

  2. 2

    Burgenland

    -12.28

    5.00

  3. 2

    Styria

    -12.28

    5.00

  4. 4

    Carinthia

    -15.79

    4.80

  5. 5

    Upper Austria

    -19.30

    4.60

  6. 6

    Lower Austria

    -22.81

    4.40

  7. 7

    Vorarlberg

    -24.56

    4.30

  8. 8

    Tyrol

    -33.33

    3.80

  9. 9

    Salzburg

    -38.60

    3.50

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Austria performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Unemployment rate, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Austria

In Austria, Unemployment rate is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 5.7% versus 6.3% in 2025, a gap of 0.6 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Austria, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 6.00% in 2020 to 5.70% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 5.20% in 2024 to 5.70% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Regional differences in Austria

In Austria, regional differences in Unemployment rate are pronounced. Across 9 comparable regions, Vienna records the highest value (9.9%) and Salzburg the lowest (3.5%), a gap of 6.4 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Austria, the evidence for Employment & Economic Security leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.