{"id":112024,"date":"2025-12-02T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/?p=112024"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:02:38","slug":"employment-and-unemployment-provisional-estimates-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/press-release\/employment-and-unemployment-provisional-estimates-october-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment and unemployment (provisional estimates) &#8211; October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October 2025 the number of employed people increased, while inactive and unemployed people decreased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a monthly basis, employment grew (+0.3%, +75 thousand) for both genders and every age group except those aged 25-34, for whom it fell. Overall, the employment rate climbed at 62.7% (+0.1 p.p.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last month, the drop in the number of unemployed people (-3.7%, -59 thousand) affected men, women and all age groups. The unemployment rate fell to 6.0% (-0.2 p.p.), the youth rate to 19.8% (-1.9 p.p.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October, the number of inactive people aged 15-64 remained substantially unchanged, even when broken down by sex, while it increased among 15-34 year-olds and decreased among those over 34. The inactivity rate was steady at 33.2% .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the quarter August-October 2025, with respect to the previous one (May-July 2025), employment was substantially unchanged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a quarterly basis, a drop was registered in the number of unemployed persons (-4.4%, -71 thousand) while the number of inactive people aged 15-64 increased (+0.5%, +61 thousand).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compared with October 2024, the number of employed persons increased by 0.9% (+224 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 0.4 p.p. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a yearly basis, the increase in the number of employed people was accompanied by a decrease in the number of both unemployed people (-2.2%, -34 thousand) and inactive people aged 15-64 (-1.4%, -171 thousand).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2025, employment grew (+0.3%). Unemployment rate down to 6.0% (-0.2 p.p.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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-112024","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\/112024","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112024"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112081,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112024\/revisions\/112081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112024"},{"taxonomy":"regione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regione?post=112024"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istat.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=112024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}