Registered unemployment - March 2025

The NEA calculates and publishes the statistical indicators on registered unemployment, in accordance with the legal provisions. The number of registered unemployed persons represents both the unemployed persons entitled to benefits (unemployed persons with work experience and unemployed persons entitled to unemployment benefits without work experience/educational graduates) and the unemployed persons not entitled to benefits (without unemployment benefits) and is based on data from primary documents and records from the database of territorial employment agencies. It represents the stock at the end of the reference month. The registered unemployment rate is determined as a ratio between the number of unemployed persons registered at the employment agencies of the county and Bucharest municipality (paid and unpaid) at the end of the reference month and the active civilian population. The civilian working population is the potential labour supply and employment of the population comprising the civilian working population and the registered unemployed. The indicator is determined annually by the National Institute of Statistics by the balance of labour at country, development region and county level. The total number of registered unemployed is structured by: - sexes (women, men); type of compensation (indemnified, non-indemnified); education level (no education, primary education, secondary education, upper secondary education, post-secondary education, vocational education/arts and crafts, university education); age groups (under 25 years, 25-29 years, 30-39 years, 40-49 years, 50-55 years, over 55 years). - residential environments (urban, rural). The NEA calculates and publishes the statistical indicators on registered unemployment, in accordance with the legal provisions.