Growth and jobs/Unemployment rate · Italy
Unemployment in Italy at 7.9% in January 2023
Reference period: January 2023 · Published: 3 Mar 2023
- Hash recorded
7.9% of labour force
+0.1 points on December 2022.
Unemployment rate · % of labour force
Values as published by the source, at current prices.
The vertical axis does not start at zero.
Data table
| Status | Crises | Governments | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | 7.9 | final | Meloni government | |
| December 2022 | 7.8 | final | Energy crisis | Meloni government |
| November 2022 | 7.8 | final | Energy crisis | Meloni government |
| October 2022 | 7.9 | final | Energy crisis | Draghi government, Meloni government |
| September 2022 | 7.9 | final | Energy crisis | Draghi government |
| August 2022 | 8.0 | final | Energy crisis | Draghi government |
| July 2022 | 8.0 | final | Energy crisis | Draghi government |
| June 2022 | 8.0 | final | Energy crisis | Draghi government |
| May 2022 | 8.1 | final | Energy crisis | Draghi government |
| April 2022 | 8.2 | final | Energy crisis | Draghi government |
| March 2022 | 8.3 | final | Energy crisis | Draghi government |
EU comparison · Nominal (% of labour force)
Same lens as the main chart: changing it here changes it above too. Context layers are those of the main country. Each country is read in the release published on the same date.
Data table
| January 2023 | 7.9 | 3.0 | 7.1 | 13.0 | 6.1 |
| December 2022 | 7.8 | 3.0 | 7.2 | 13.0 | 6.1 |
| November 2022 | 7.8 | 3.0 | 7.1 | 13.0 | 6.1 |
| October 2022 | 7.9 | 3.1 | 7.2 | 12.9 | 6.1 |
| September 2022 | 7.9 | 3.1 | 7.1 | 12.9 | 6.1 |
| August 2022 | 8.0 | 3.1 | 7.2 | 12.7 | 6.1 |
| July 2022 | 8.0 | 3.1 | 7.4 | 12.6 | 6.1 |
| June 2022 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 7.5 | 12.6 | 6.1 |
| May 2022 | 8.1 | 3.0 | 7.5 | 12.6 | 6.1 |
| April 2022 | 8.2 | 3.0 | 7.5 | 12.9 | 6.2 |
| March 2022 | 8.3 | 3.0 | 7.4 | 13.2 | 6.2 |
Descriptive analysis not yet available for this lens.
What it measures
Share of unemployed people in the labour force (aged 15-74), seasonally adjusted. Version published by Eurostat on 3 March 2023, retrieved from a copy kept by the Internet Archive.
Methodology
Unemployed people aged 15-74 as a percentage of the labour force, monthly seasonally adjusted data harmonised by Eurostat. The national ISTAT figure may differ in method and revisions.
Source
Eurostat · Unemployment by sex and age, monthly data
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Context layers and attribution rules
Crises
Conventional whole-year periods chosen by the editors; each period's source documents the event. They apply to every EU country. They show temporal coincidences, not causes.
4 periods with source
- Financial crisis1 Jan 2008 – 31 Dec 2009
- Sovereign debt crisis1 Jan 2011 – 31 Dec 2012
- COVID-19 pandemic1 Jan 2020 – 31 Dec 2021
- Energy crisis1 Jan 2022 – 31 Dec 2022
Governments
Each government covers the period from its swearing-in to the end date given by governo.it. An annual figure is not attributed to a single government: the bands show who was in office during the period, as a temporal coincidence. For public spending, the budget law for year N is passed by the government in office in year N−1.
14 periods with source
- D'Alema II government22 Dec 1999 – 25 Apr 2000
- Amato II government25 Apr 2000 – 11 Jun 2001
- Berlusconi II government11 Jun 2001 – 23 Apr 2005
- Berlusconi III government23 Apr 2005 – 17 May 2006
- Prodi II government17 May 2006 – 6 May 2008
- Berlusconi IV government8 May 2008 – 16 Nov 2011
- Monti government16 Nov 2011 – 27 Apr 2013
- Letta government28 Apr 2013 – 21 Feb 2014
- Renzi government22 Feb 2014 – 12 Dec 2016
- Gentiloni government12 Dec 2016 – 1 Jun 2018
- Conte I government1 Jun 2018 – 4 Sept 2019
- Conte II government5 Sept 2019 – 13 Feb 2021
- Draghi government13 Feb 2021 – 22 Oct 2022
- Meloni government22 Oct 2022 – in office
Release history
Every release stays published as it was. Differences are computed against the release published before it.
- 21 Oct 2026Aug 20269 values revised · 513 new periods
- 15 Mar 2024Jan 2024no value changed · 11 new periods · 11 periods no longer present
- 3 Mar 2023Jan 20232 values revised · 9 new periods · 10 periods no longer present
- 1 Jun 2022Apr 2022First release on record
Values revised since the release of 1 Jun 2022
| Reference period | Before | After | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 2022 | 8.4 | 8.3 | −0.1 pts |
| April 2022 | 8.4 | 8.2 | −0.2 pts |