EU 6.25
· European ranking
26 / 34
Down 4 positions compared with previous year
Cyprus: Unemployment rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
4.40% of labour force
EU 6.25 · -1.8 pp vs Europe
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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At a glance
Cyprus performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Unemployment rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Cyprus
In Cyprus, Unemployment rate is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 4.4% versus 6.3% in 2025, with a gap of 1.9 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Cyprus, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 7.60% in 2020 to 4.40% in 2025. The latest step, from 4.80% in 2024 to 4.40% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Cyprus, the evidence for Employment & Economic Security leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.