Employment Rate / Italy
Italy Employment Rate
Italy employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 46.15%.
COUNTRY: Italy
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-07 05:09:26
GM ECONOMY RATING
Italy · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
60 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
11.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
15.0 / 20
External stability
6.0 / 15
Financial robustness
6.0 / 15
Structural stability
15.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
1.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Italy · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
Latest
46.15%
Previous
46.37%
Range avg.
44.77%
Rank
88
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CountryItaly
IndicatorEmployment Rate
46.15%2025 · Rank 88
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Italy recorded 46.15% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.21 percentage points, from 46.37% to 46.15%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (44.77%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is predominantly upward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 43.42% in 2016 and the high was 46.37% in 2024.
Comparison
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