Unemployment by sex and age - annual data

In 2014, Italy's unemployment by sex and age increased by 6.8% compared to 2013, reaching 42.7%.

The figure is above the EU-27 average of 24.1%.

Italy 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 grown by 68.1% (from 25.4% in 2009).

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