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EU economic statistics · Eurostat unemployment rate

Unemployment in the European Union (27 countries) was 6.1% in July 2026, Eurostat reports

Eurostat reports a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 6.1% for the European Union (27 countries) in July 2026.

Eurostat reports a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 6.1% for the European Union (27 countries) in July 2026, for the total population aged 15 to 74.

That is unchanged from the 6.1% Eurostat reports for June 2026.

The rate is the number of unemployed people as a percentage of the labour force aged 15 to 74, harmonised across countries and adjusted for seasonal variation but not for calendar effects.

This brief reports the figure Eurostat published and its comparison with the preceding month. It does not explain why the figure moved, and it does not attribute the movement to any policy, event or decision.

Times

These are different things and are not interchangeable.

Reporting period
2026-07
Source last revised
4 September 2026, 21:00 UTC
Published here
12 September 2026, 01:35 UTC

Evidence

Record identifier
une_rt_m:EU27_2020:2026-07
Retrieved
12 September 2026, 00:58 UTC
Snapshot checksum
44523c2796e2a97c1deca27ca6301770be7622771bff7fbbe6cf93e57780f16c
Attribution
Source: Eurostat, dataset une_rt_m. — Eurostat copyright and reuse notice
Where each figure above comes from (6 values)
ValueAs publishedOriginSource field or calculation
Unemployment rate, the European Union (27 countries), 2026-07 6.1 % field value[offset(geo=EU27_2020, time=2026-07, s_adj=SA, age=TOTAL, sex=T, unit=PC_ACT)]
Harmonised unemployment as a percentage of the labour force aged 15 to 74, seasonally adjusted and not calendar adjusted.
Observation flag (none) field status[offset(geo=EU27_2020, time=2026-07)]
Eurostat flag preserved verbatim; absent means unflagged.
Reporting period 2026-07 field dimension.time.category.index
Previous month (2026-06) 6.1 % field value[offset(geo=EU27_2020, time=2026-06)]
Same dataset, same filters, immediately preceding month.
Change on the previous month 0.0 percentage points calculation round(value - previous_value, 1)
Both figures are rates expressed in percent, so their difference is in percentage points, not percent.
Geography, as Eurostat labels it European Union - 27 countries (from 2020) field dimension.geo.category.label[EU27_2020]
Shown on this page as “the European Union (27 countries)”. The Eurostat code EU27_2020 and the figure are unchanged; only the displayed name is shortened.

Wording template eurostat_unemployment version 1.0.

Revision history

  • 12 September 2026, 00:58 UTC — First publication

    Assembled from the source record listed under evidence. This record predates the start of this service's coverage and was added when the source was first read.

Limits of this brief

Harmonised, seasonally adjusted unemployment for the total population aged 15 to 74, as a percentage of the labour force. A filter that does not match the approved definition causes the record to be held rather than quietly substituted. Two geography labels are shortened so that a headline is readable — Eurostat's own label is shown on the brief itself in every case. Month-on-month differences are given in percentage points. This measures unemployment as the Labour Force Survey defines it, which is not the same as the number of people registered as unemployed.

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