Cyprus — Annual unemployment rate for people aged 15–74; percent of labour force, 2009–2025.
Cyprus unemployment rose from 5.4% in 2009 to a peak of 16.1% in 2014. It then declined almost continuously, reaching 4.4% in 2025. The 2025 rate was 11.7 percentage points below the peak, a relative reduction of 72.7%. The series uses the Eurostat annual Labour Force Survey definition for people aged 15–74 in the labour force.
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2009 | 5.4% | 2009 |
| 2 | 2010 | 6.3% | 2010 |
| 3 | 2011 | 7.9% | 2011 |
| 4 | 2012 | 11.9% | 2012 |
| 5 | 2013 | 15.9% | 2013 |
| 6 | 2014 | 16.1% | 2014 |
| 7 | 2015 | 15% | 2015 |
| 8 | 2016 | 13% | 2016 |
| 9 | 2017 | 11.1% | 2017 |
| 10 | 2018 | 8.4% | 2018 |
| 11 | 2019 | 7.2% | 2019 |
| 12 | 2020 | 7.6% | 2020 |
| 13 | 2021 | 7.2% | 2021 |
| 14 | 2022 | 6.3% | 2022 |
| 15 | 2023 | 5.8% | 2023 |
| 16 | 2024 | 4.9% | 2024 |
| 17 | 2025 | 4.4% | 2025 |
Source 1: Eurostat Annual Unemployment Rate
Publisher: Eurostat
Dataset/table: Annual Unemployment Rate, Cyprus
Units: percent of labour force
Date checked: 2026-07-19
Evidence: Supports the complete Cyprus annual unemployment-rate series from 2009 through 2025.
The unemployment rate is unemployed people as a share of the labour force, not the working-age population. The graphic highlights eight milestone years for legibility; the public data table retains every annual observation from 2009 through 2025.
Uses Eurostat dataset une_rt_a for Cyprus, total sex, ages 15–74, annual unemployment rate.
All 17 observations use one Eurostat series, one population basis and one annual definition.
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