Dutch economy · dataset
Netherlands — unemployed persons
Unemployed persons in the Netherlands (labour force aged 15–74), monthly counts as published by CBS. October 2025: 411 thousand, a 4.0% unemployment rate — the highest in four years.
latest · Oct 2025
411k · 4.0%
3-mo trend
+8k/mo
YoY
+35k
Rising +6.5% 25M1 to 25M10 over the period shown.
CBS · as-published · monthly · snapshot 2026-09-22
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