Unemployment rate in Austria 2023-2024

* Estimate (national definition).

** The Austrian employment service (AMS) calculated the unemployment figure based on the unemployed registered at the employment office and the dependent employees registered with the Main Association of Social Insurance Institutions (HV).

*** The ILO concept is based on the international definition of employment and unemployment. The ILO concept defines someone as employed when they, in the week of recording, worked for at least an hour or did not work because of holiday or illness etc. but are normally employed. People with upright employment contracts who receive child benefit or are on maternity leave are included as employed. Unemployment is defined as anyone who is not gainfully employed in this sense, takes active steps to look for work and is able to start work in the short term. Basically, the data refers to the population in private households without military and civilian service. In Austria, the figures used for the ILO concept come from the Microcensus Labor Force Survey (AKE). The information relates to the unadjusted values. The values of the most recent months are to be regarded as provisional.

**** The linked table only includes the values for the last two months according to the national definition. The values for previous months come from respective earlier reports. The information for the international definition can be found here.