US EditionArgentina Posts Highest Fourth-Quarter Unemployment Since Pandemic
Unemployment rose to 7.5% in late 2025, with young workers facing rates above 16%, driven by formal job losses and high informal employment, according to INDEC data.
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Argentina's Jobless Rate Climbs to 7.5% Despite GDP Growth
Key Points — Argentina’s unemployment rate climbed to 7.5% in the fourth quarter of 2025, up from 6.4% a year earlier, affecting roughly 1.7 million people nationwide — Young workers bore the heaviest burden, with joblessness among men under 29 surging 4.5 percentage points to above 16% — Economists flagged an unusual paradox: GDP grew […] The post Argentina’s Jobless Rate Climbs to 7.5% Despite GDP Growth appeared first on The Rio Times.
Argentina unemployment rises to 7.5% at end-2025, Indec says
Argentina’s unemployment rate stood at 7.5% in the fourth quarter of 2025, up from 6.4% in the same period of 2024 and from 6.6% in the previous quarter, according to data released on Wednesday by the national statistics agency, Indec. The employment rate was 45.0%, while the activity rate reached 48.6% across the 31 urban areas covered by the Permanent Household Survey.
The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) reported that the unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2025 was 7.5%, which meant an increase in the number of
The unemployment rate in Argentina rose to 7.5% at the end of last year, the highest level for a quarter of a quarter since the Covid-19 pandemic. Employment loss was intensified before the government of Javier Milei approved its labour reform in February. Fuels: Federal government proposes to close ICMs on diesel imports, with 50% compensation by the US BC: In the middle of the war in Iran, Fed maintains the rates between 3.5% and 3.75% In the …
This is the figure recorded at the end of last year; if projected to the entire population, there are 1,717,125 unemployed; compared to the previous quarter it also increased;
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