Unemployment by sex and age - annual data

In 2016, France's unemployment by sex and age decreased by 0.4% compared to 2015, reaching 26.0%.

The figure is above the EU-27 average of 20.7%.

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 grown by 7.9% (from 24.1% in 2011).

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