Unemployment rate by sex

In 2025, the EU-27 figure for unemployment rate by sex was 12.0 .

That is a 1.7% rose versus 2024 (11.8).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 16.7% lower.

Across member states, Spain reported the highest value (21.0, 2025) and Czechia the lowest (5.60, 2025) — a ratio of 3.8× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset tesem120; every value links back to the canonical source.