Unemployment by sex and age - annual data

In 2020, France's unemployment by sex and age decreased by 4.8% compared to 2019, reaching 8.0%.

The figure is above the EU-27 average of 7.2%.

France ranks 7th 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 22.3% (from 10.3% in 2015).

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