site.btaEurostat: Record High Employment Rate, Regional Disparities in EU Last Year

In 2023, the EU’s employment rate stood at 75.3%, up by 0.7 percentage points from 2022. This is the highest level in the entire available time series, show Eurostat data released Tuesday. Significant regional disparities within Member States were observed.

In Bulgaria, the Southwest region (which includes the capital) had the highest employment rate in the 20-64 age group, 80.5%. The lowest rate for that age group was registered in the Northwest region, 67.2%.

Among the EU regions at level 2 of the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2), the Polish capital region of Warszawski stołeczny had the highest employment rate last year at 86.5%. By contrast, in three regions in southern Italy, less than half of the core working-age population was employed: Calabria (48.4%), Campania (48.4%) and Sicilia (48.7%).