The average number of unemployed persons aged 15 to 74 in the third quarter of 2025 was 265,000, which was 43,000 more than in July to September 2024, according to Statistics Finland.
The unemployment rate in the third quarter of 2025 was 9.2 per cent, having been 7.8 per cent one year earlier.
Meanwhile, the average number of employed persons was 2,609,000 in July-September period of 2025, which was 14,000 fewer than in the corresponding period of 2024.
The number of hours worked by employed persons was 964.5 million hours in the third quarter of 2025, which was 0.2 per cent lower than one year ago.
In the third quarter of 2025, the number of employed persons decreased most in information and communication and increased most in manufacturing compared to the corresponding period of the previous year.
In the third quarter of 2025, the number of part-time employed persons was 477,000, which was 18.3 per cent of all employed persons. The share was 0,2 percentage points higher than in the year before.
Altogether 130,000 or 27.3 per cent of them worked part-time because full-time work was not available. There were 14,000 more persons belonging to this group than in the corresponding period one year before.
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Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
