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Unemployment rate in Italy

How hard is it to have a job there?

Italy's unemployment rate is 6.39 % — #79 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

6.39%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

Source: World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt)

Unemployment rate in Italy over time

12.68 %9.38 %6.08 %12.68 % · 20146.08 % · 20072000: 10.83 %2001: 9.60 %2002: 9.21 %2003: 8.87 %2004: 7.87 %2005: 7.73 %2006: 6.78 %2007: 6.08 %2008: 6.72 %2009: 7.75 %2010: 8.36 %2011: 8.36 %2012: 10.65 %2013: 12.15 %2014: 12.68 %2015: 11.90 %2016: 11.69 %2017: 11.21 %2018: 10.54 %2019: 9.88 %2020: 9.19 %2021: 9.50 %2022: 8.07 %2023: 7.63 %2024: 6.50 %2025: 6.39 %2000201220256.39 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#79 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
36 %
45 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 0.11 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
6.29 pp
peak 12.68 % in 2014
Full series
▼ 4.44 pp
since 2000

In Europe: #25 of 36vs median 5.25 %: +1.14 pp (worse)

Among 124 countries

6 of 124 countries between 0.78 % and 1.53 %6 of 124 countries between 1.53 % and 2.28 %12 of 124 countries between 2.28 % and 3.03 %16 of 124 countries between 3.03 % and 3.78 %7 of 124 countries between 3.78 % and 4.53 %15 of 124 countries between 4.53 % and 5.28 %14 of 124 countries between 5.28 % and 6.02 %7 of 124 countries between 6.02 % and 6.77 %6 of 124 countries between 6.77 % and 7.52 %2 of 124 countries between 7.52 % and 8.27 %10 of 124 countries between 8.27 % and 9.02 %3 of 124 countries between 9.02 % and 9.77 %3 of 124 countries between 9.77 % and 10.52 %2 of 124 countries between 10.52 % and 11.27 %3 of 124 countries between 11.27 % and 12.02 %1 of 124 countries between 12.02 % and 12.77 %1 of 124 countries between 12.77 % and 13.51 %2 of 124 countries between 13.51 % and 14.26 %1 of 124 countries between 14.26 % and 15.01 %2 of 124 countries between 15.01 % and 15.76 %1 of 124 countries between 16.51 % and 17.26 %4 of 124 countries between 18.01 % and 18.76 %median 5.23 %Italy: ahead of 36 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentItaly 6.39 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Italy is ahead of 36 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Italy
77 Portugal6.16 %−0.23 pp
78 Luxembourg6.34 %−0.05 pp
79 Italy6.39 %—
80 Barbados6.52 %+0.13 pp
81 Latvia6.57 %+0.18 pp

Unemployment, share of the labour force (World Bank / ILO estimate).

How to read this figure

Share of the labour force without work but actively seeking it (World Bank / ILO harmonised estimate). People outside the labour force — students, carers, the discouraged — are not counted.

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