Overall employment growth

In 2025, the EU-27 figure for overall employment growth was 1.00 .

That is a 37.5% fell versus 2024 (1.60).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 61.5% lower.

Across member states, Malta reported the highest value (7.80, 2025) and Poland the lowest (0.20, 2025) — a ratio of 39.0× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset tesem040; every value links back to the canonical source.