EU 6.25
· European ranking
8 / 34
Down 3 positions compared with previous year
Turkey: Unemployment rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
8.40% of labour force
EU 6.25 · +2.2 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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At a glance
Turkey performs less 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 pressure.
European comparison in Turkey
In Turkey, Unemployment rate is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 8.4% versus 6.3% in 2025, with a gap of 2.2 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Turkey, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 13.20% in 2020 to 8.40% in 2025. The latest step, from 8.80% in 2024 to 8.40% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Turkey, the evidence for Employment & Economic Security leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.