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The unemployment rate stood at 5.6% and the labour underutilisation rate at 9.7%
Monthly Employment and Unemployment Estimates
The unemployment rate stood at 5.6% and the labour underutilisation rate at 9.7% - December 2025
29 January 2026

Summary

November 2025 (definitive estimates):

The unemployment rate stood at 5.7%, down by 0.1 percentage points (pp) from October 2025, by 0.3 pp from August of that year and by 0.9 pp from November 2024.

The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 9.8%, down from the previous month (0.2 pp), from three months earlier (0.4 pp) and from the same month of 2024 (1.3 pp).

December 2025 (provisional estimates):

The unemployment rate stood at 5.6%, down from November 2025 (0.1 pp), from September 2025 (0.4 pp) and from December 2024 (0.8 pp).

The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 9.7%, down from the previous month (0.1 pp), from three months before (0.5 pp) and from the same month of 2024 (1.1 pp).

The adult’s unemployment rate stood at (4.7%), the same value as in November 2025 and the lowest since April 2002 (4.4%).


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