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    [OC] Unemployment across Europe in 2025
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    [OC] Unemployment across Europe in 2025

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    2. Me-and-the-tree on

      I really didn’t know that southwestern Spain was that bad. What phenomenon is occurring there to cause such a discrepancy?

    3. 233C on

      How confident are we that the same methodology is being used everywhere?
      For instance, some countries have “zero hours” contract, where someone is technically employed, even if they have no revenue. Some countries “discards” from the “unemployed” those who aren’t even looking for work anymore. Then there are part times (do they count as 1, 0, 0.5?), etc

    10. nefewel on

      I feel like there should be a broader spectrum of colors because the outlier red regions make the differences in most of europe hard to spot

    11. thisis_not_throwaway on

      Well, the south of those countries lives for tourism, a seasonal sector…but the governments enjoy…
      0 added value, seasonal business = shit salaries, high unemployment

      Of course definitely not the only reason, but a very important one

    14. HarrMada on

      Doesn’t make sense to compare unemployment rates between countries, it’s not accurate. You should always at least also look at labour force participation rates and employment rates too to get a bigger picture.

    15. Pleasant-Twist4152 on

      Never thought there was such a clear line between dutch speaking and french speaking parts… /s

    16. split_your_infinites on

      According to the data used in this chart Denmark has a unemployment rate of almost 7%… Official numbers from Denmark is about 3.1%,which I trust a lot more.

    19. crone66 on

      This are the official reported numbers but they count them differently. Additionally some countries make them look better with some weird shenanigans especially Germany is known for that.

      If you want to compare these countries correctly if have to take into account all people that don’t work but and get money from the government for it to have a good comparison.

      Example: if unemployment in Germany you can be put into a training course or even on a wait-list for it (for 2 years) and the person wouldn’t be counted as unemployed.

      Other countries obviously count differently therefore the comparison is probably not really reprensentiv.

    20. EsGeeBee on

      Do we really need to keep saying this, Europe is not the EU and The EU is not Europe.

      It really isn’t that hard to understand.

    21. PapayaPotpourri on

      If this survey counted both 73 unemployment weight as the weight of 25 or 28, then this isn’t really a good survey, younger ages should have more weight in the final data, cause a 26 unemployed person have severe consequences on the economy and social life that a 73 unemployed person, weights are very important for a true analysis

    22. ChazCharlie on

      Not sure what NUTS means, but the UK is still in Europe FYI. We voted for our freedom, not to leave the continent physically…

    23. shuozhe on

      Got used to see the border to east germany in most heatmaps.. strange too see how small the difference actual are.