EU 6.25
· European ranking
23 / 34
Up 2 positions compared with previous year
Ireland: Unemployment rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
4.70% of labour force
EU 6.25 · -1.5 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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Regional map
· 2025 · 3 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+4.26
4.90
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2+2.13
4.80
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3-10.64
4.20
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Ireland performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Unemployment rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Ireland
In Ireland, Unemployment rate is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 4.7% versus 6.3% in 2025, with a gap of 1.6 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Ireland, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 5.90% in 2020 to 4.70% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 4.30% in 2024 to 4.70% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.
Regional differences in Ireland
In Ireland, regional values for Unemployment rate are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Eastern and Midland Ireland records the highest value (4.9%) and Southern Ireland the lowest (4.2%), a gap of 0.7 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Ireland, Employment & Economic Security shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.