Jobless rate stays put in Cyprus

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Cyprus recorded an unemployment complaint of 4.2% successful February, the aforesaid arsenic successful January, with the fig of unemployed estimated astatine 22,000, according to information published by Eurostat connected Wednesday. This complaint shows a slight alteration compared with February 2025, when it stood astatine 4.5% with astir 23,000 unemployed, and remains importantly little than the mean unemployment complaint successful some the euro country and the European Union.

For the aforesaid period, the unemployment complaint was 4.0% for men and 4.4% for women, remaining unchanged compared with the erstwhile month.

Regarding youth unemployment successful Cyprus, the astir caller available information is from December 2025, when the complaint for radical under 25 was 15.1%, corresponding to astir 5,000 young people.

At European Union level, the seasonally adjusted unemployment complaint was 5.9% successful February, stable compared with January, while successful the euro country it stood astatine 6.2%, compared to 6.1% successful January 2026, and 6.3% successful February 2025. 

The total fig of unemployed is estimated astatine 13.1 cardinal successful the EU, of whom 10.9 cardinal are successful the euro area.