In the second quarter of 2024, the employment rate of people aged 20-64 in the EU stood at 75.8%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points (pp) compared with the first quarter of 2024.
Labour market slack – encompassing those with unmet employment needs, a large part of which includes unemployed persons – amounted to 11.0% of the extended labour force aged 20-64 in the second quarter of 2024 (a decrease of 0.1 pp compared with the first quarter of 2024).
This information comes from data on the labour market in the second quarter of 2024 published today by Eurostat. This article presents only a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article.
Source datasets: lfsi_emp_q and lfsi_sla_q
Between the first and the second quarter of 2024, Estonia (+1.0 pp), Lithuania (+0.9 pp) and Czechia (+0.8 pp) registered the highest increases in the employment rate among the 18 EU countries where employment rose. The employment rate remained stable in Italy, Poland and Slovakia and decreased in 6 EU countries, with the biggest decreases recorded in Slovenia (-0.7 pp) and Finland (-0.4 pp).
Source dataset: lfsi_emp_q
Source: EUROSTAT
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