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Long-term unemployment in the EU countries
What share of people aged 15 to 74 who work or are looking for work (the labour force) is out of work and has been actively seeking employment for at least a year?
Period 2025 · % of the labour force
identifier desemprego-de-longa-duracao-2025-paises
Published by Eurostat, in «Long-term unemployment rate by sex» (tesem130, freq=A, indic_em=LTU, age=Y15-74, sex=T, unit=PC_ACT).
The countries and the Union
| Country | Value | Source mark |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 2,0 | |
| Bulgaria | 1,5 | |
| Czechia | 0,8 | |
| Denmark | 0,9 | |
| Germany | 1,1 | |
| Estonia | 1,8 | |
| Ireland | 1,1 | |
| Greece | 5,0 | |
| Spain | 3,4 | d |
| France | 1,8 | d |
| Croatia | 1,8 | |
| Italy | 3,1 | |
| Cyprus | 0,9 | |
| Latvia | 2,3 | |
| Lithuania | 2,5 | |
| Luxembourg | 2,0 | u |
| Hungary | 1,5 | |
| Malta | 0,6 | |
| Netherlands | 0,5 | |
| Austria | 1,3 | |
| Poland | 0,8 | |
| Portugal | 2,2 | |
| Romania | 2,1 | |
| Slovenia | 1,1 | |
| Slovakia | 3,4 | |
| Finland | 2,4 | |
| Sweden | 1,8 | |
| European Union | 1,9 |
What each mark means
- d
- definition differs; in Eurostat’s response, «definition differs (see metadata)»
- u
- low reliability; in Eurostat’s response, «low reliability»
The definition is the one in Eurostat’s response, as the response writes it.
Proof
The series page at the source https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tesem130/default/table?lang=en
What the response says Long-term unemployment rate by sex — Percentage of population in the labour force — 2025
Read on 29.09.2026
Updated by the source on 10.09.2026
The country names
The country names are those of the countries authority table of the Publications Office of the European Union, read on 29.09.2026. The table