Unemployment by sex and age - annual data

In 2016, Italy's unemployment by sex and age decreased by 2.5% compared to 2015, reaching 11.7%.

The figure is above the EU-27 average of 9.3%.

Italy ranks 5th 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 37.6% (from 8.5% in 2011).

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