{"id":108374,"date":"2025-10-30T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/?p=108374"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:00:39","slug":"employment-and-unemployment-provisional-estimates-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/press-release\/employment-and-unemployment-provisional-estimates-september-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment and unemployment (provisional estimates) &#8211; September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September 2025 the number of employed and unemployed people increased, while inactive people decreased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a monthly basis, employment grew (+0.3%, +67 thousand) for women and every age group except those aged 35-49, for whom it fell, while it remained substantially unchanged among men. Overall, the employment rate climbed at 62.7% (+0.2 p.p.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last month, the increase in the number of unemployed people (+2.0%, +31 thousand) affected men and people aged 15-34 and 50+; unemployment decreased for women and those aged 35-49. The unemployment rate rose to 6.1% (+0.1 p.p.)., while the youth rate grew to 20.6% (+0.9 p.p.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September, the number of inactive people aged 15-64 decreased (-0.8%, -99 thousand) for both sexes and each age group, except for the 35-49 age group, for whom it increased. The inactivity rate fell to 33.1% (-0.3 p.p.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the quarter July-September 2025, with respect to the previous one (April-June 2025), employment increased (+0.1%, +31 thousand).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a quarterly basis, a drop was registered in the number of unemployed persons (-4.5%, -73 thousand) while the number of inactive people aged 15-64 increased (+0.3%, +36 thousand).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compared with September 2024, the number of employed persons increased by 0.7% (+176 thousand); the growth affected both sexes and those aged 50+, while employment decreased in all other age groups. Over the year, the employment rate showed a rise of 0.3 p.p. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a yearly basis, the increase of employed people was accompanied by an increase of unemployed persons (+1.0%, +16 thousand) while the number of inactive persons aged 15-64 decreased (-1.3%, -167 thousand).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2025, employment fell (-0.2%). Unemployment rate unchanged at 6.0%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4082],"tags":[3296,3714,3495,2968,3208],"regione":[],"tema":[4071],"class_list":["post-108374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-employed","tag-employment-and-unemployment","tag-labour","tag-flash","tag-unemployed","tema-labour"],"meta_fields":{"data_pubblicazione":"","descrizioneperiodo":"","titolobreve":"","news":"","news_rss":"","sottotitolo":""},"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[],"tags-info":[{"id":3296,"label":"employed","slug":"employed"},{"id":3714,"label":"employment and unemployment","slug":"employment-and-unemployment"},{"id":3495,"label":"labour","slug":"labour"},{"id":2968,"label":"statistics flash","slug":"flash"},{"id":3208,"label":"unemployed","slug":"unemployed"}],"categories-info":[{"id":4082,"label":"Press release","slug":"press-release"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108679,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108374\/revisions\/108679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108374"},{"taxonomy":"regione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regione?post=108374"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=108374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}