EU 6.25
· European ranking
11 / 34
No change compared with previous year
Lithuania: Unemployment rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
6.90% of labour force
EU 6.25 · +0.7 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 · 2 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+13.04
7.80
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2-26.09
5.10
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Lithuania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Unemployment rate, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Lithuania
In Lithuania, Unemployment rate is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 6.9% versus 6.3% in 2025, a gap of 0.7 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Lithuania, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 8.50% in 2020 to 6.90% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 7.10% in 2024, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.
Reading within the topic
In Lithuania, 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 deterioration and warrant monitoring.