Unemployment by sex and age - annual data

In 2018, France's unemployment by sex and age decreased by 4.3% compared to 2017, reaching 9.0%.

The figure is above the EU-27 average of 7.4%.

France ranks 4th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 12.6% (from 10.3% in 2013).

Source: Eurostat dataset une_rt_a, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.