EU 6.25
· European ranking
14 / 34
Up 2 positions compared with previous year
Denmark: Unemployment rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
6.40% of labour force
EU 6.25 · +0.2 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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· 2025 · 5 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+6.25
6.80
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2+1.56
6.50
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2+1.56
6.50
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4-4.69
6.10
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5-15.62
5.40
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Denmark performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Unemployment rate, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to confirmed stability. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Denmark
In Denmark, Unemployment rate is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 6.4% versus 6.3% in 2025, a gap of 0.2 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Denmark, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 5.60% in 2020 to 6.40% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 6.20% in 2024, confirming the stable reading.
Regional differences in Denmark
In Denmark, regional values for Unemployment rate are relatively close. Across 5 comparable regions, Hovedstaden records the highest value (6.8%) and Sjælland the lowest (5.4%), a gap of 1.4 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Denmark, the evidence for Employment & Economic Security leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.