In Q4 2025, the ILO unemployment rate stood at 7.9% of the labour force. It rose by 0.2 percentage points over the quarter, bringing the year-on-year increase to +0.6 percentage points, reaching its highest level since Q3 2021. The sharp rise in unemployment year on year reflects sluggish growth in employment (25,000 net jobs were created over one year, after +181,000 a year earlier), while the labour force grew much more rapidly (249,000 additional workers over one year, after +110,000 a year earlier)...