# Unemployment rate: Italy

6.391% in 2025, the latest year published. Figures for 35 years from 1991 to 2025 are below.

Share of the labor force without work, but actively looking for a job and available to start soon.

Source: ILO Modelled Estimates, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data. [Source and method](/sources/unemployment) · [All countries and regions](/unemployment).

## Every year

| Year | Value (%) |
| ---: | ---: |
| 2025 | 6.391 |
| 2024 | 6.5 |
| 2023 | 7.627 |
| 2022 | 8.069 |
| 2021 | 9.497 |
| 2020 | 9.192 |
| 2019 | 9.884 |
| 2018 | 10.538 |
| 2017 | 11.211 |
| 2016 | 11.688 |
| 2015 | 11.896 |
| 2014 | 12.683 |
| 2013 | 12.149 |
| 2012 | 10.655 |
| 2011 | 8.359 |
| 2010 | 8.363 |
| 2009 | 7.749 |
| 2008 | 6.723 |
| 2007 | 6.076 |
| 2006 | 6.777 |
| 2005 | 7.73 |
| 2004 | 7.866 |
| 2003 | 8.869 |
| 2002 | 9.211 |
| 2001 | 9.599 |
| 2000 | 10.834 |
| 1999 | 11.681 |
| 1998 | 12.117 |
| 1997 | 11.985 |
| 1996 | 11.864 |
| 1995 | 11.661 |
| 1994 | 11.086 |
| 1993 | 10.212 |
| 1992 | 9.321 |
| 1991 | 10.097 |

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