According to provisional calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the seasonally adjusted number of persons in employment therefore remained unchanged (0.0%) compared with the previous month. It has remained at virtually the same level since December 2024, following a drop of 14,000 people in January 2025 and slight increases of 10,000 and 5,000 people in February and March 2025, respectively.

According to results of the labour force survey, 1.66 million people were unemployed in April 2025. This was an increase of 256,000, or 18.2%, compared with April 2024. The unemployment rate rose to 3.8%, which represented an increase of 0.6 percentage points on the same month of the previous year (April 2024: 3.2%).

Source: Destatis
Post by: Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Trade