Employment and unemployment (monthly)

In order to improve the timeliness of statistical information on the Italian labour market and in accordance with the agreements made within the European Union, Istat publishes monthly estimates of the main labour market indicators resulting from the “Labour force survey”.

In December 2014 22.422 million persons were employed, +0.4% compared with November 2014. Unemployed were 3.322 million, -3.2% with respect to the previous month.