Spain continued to boast the highest unemployment rate in the EU in April 2025

Spain reported an unemployment rate of 10.9% in April 2025, according to the latest data from Eurostat, with the country continuing to boast the highest rate in the EU.

The 10.9% unemployment rate is unchanged month-on-month, the data showed, although it is down on the 11.6% recorded in April of last year.

Other EU countries to report a high unemployment rate for the month of April include Finland (9.1%), Sweden (8.5%), Estonia (8.3%) and Greece (8.3%).

At the other end of the scale, the unemployment rate was lowest in Malta (2.7%) and Czechia (2.7%), while Bulgaria (3.3%) and Poland (3.3%) also reported rates well below the EU average.

Unemployment in the EU

The EU-wide unemployment rate stood at 5.9% in April 2025, unchanged from the previous month and slightly down from 6.0% a year earlier. In the euro area, the rate stood at 6.2%, a slight decline on both the previous month (6.3%) and the same month the previous year (6.4%), Eurostat noted.

An estimated 12,902 million people were unemployed across the EU as of April 2025, with 10,680 million of these located in the euro area.

On a month-on-month basis, the number of unemployed declined by 188,000 in the EU and by 207,000 in the euro area, while compared to the previous year, reductions of 217,000 and 343,000, respectively, were recorded.

The youth unemployment rate (those under 25) stood at 14.8% in the EU and 14.4% in the euro area in April, with the EU figure rising (by 19,000) compared to the same month last year, and falling (by 16,000) in the euro area. Read more here.

Unemployment Rate by EU Member State (April 2025)

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