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Long-term unemployment

Unemployed 12 months or more, % of the labour force. Eurostat. The sticky part of [unemployment].

percent

The file

Share of the labour force unemployed 12 months or more. LFS, Eurostat.

The indicator

une_ltu_a, LTU, Y15-74, T, PC_ACT. Not the headline Unemployment rate.

What the numbers show

The sticky tail of joblessness. Pair: Unemployment. Different bases stay in the citation.

Source
Eurostat
Licence
Eurostat reuse policy
Last publisher update
2026-09-10
Retrieved
2026-09-15
Warehouse version
v21

Cite

Longseries, “Long-term unemployment”. Eurostat (une_ltu_a), 2003–2025, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, European Union, Finland, France, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Türkiye. Retrieved 2026-09-15. Eurostat reuse policy. Warehouse v21. https://longseries.com/en/d/eu-long-term-unemployment/

No revisions in this copy yet — cron will append them when a publisher changes a past value.

Latest values

Sorted by the latest published value. The rest of the file is under the fold.

32 places — sorted by latest value
CountryYearValue
Greece20255.0
Spain20253.4
Slovakia20253.4
Italy20253.1
Lithuania20252.5
Finland20252.4
Latvia20252.3
Portugal20252.2
The rest of the places (24)
Remaining 24 places
Romania20252.1
Belgium20252.0
Luxembourg20252.0
European Union20251.9
France20251.8
Sweden20251.8
Estonia20251.8
Croatia20251.8
Bulgaria20251.5
Switzerland20251.5
Hungary20251.5
Türkiye20251.5
Austria20251.3
Germany20251.1
Ireland20251.1
Slovenia20251.1
Cyprus20250.9
Denmark20250.9
Poland20250.8
Czechia20250.8
Norway20250.7
Iceland20250.6
Malta20250.6
Netherlands20250.5

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