EU 6.25
· European ranking
7 / 34
Down 1 positions compared with previous year
Serbia: Unemployment rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
8.70% of labour force
EU 6.25 · +2.4 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 · 4 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+37.93
12.00
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2+0.00
8.70
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3-8.05
8.00
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4-20.69
6.90
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Serbia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Unemployment rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Serbia
In Serbia, Unemployment rate is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 8.7% versus 6.3% in 2025, with a gap of 2.5 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Serbia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 9.80% in 2020 to 8.70% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 8.60% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.
Regional differences in Serbia
In Serbia, Unemployment rate shows noticeable regional variation. Across 4 comparable regions, Southern and Eastern Serbia records the highest value (12%) and Belgrade Region the lowest (6.9%), a gap of 5.1 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Serbia, 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 improvement.