The unemployment rate was 7.3% in France (excluding Mayotte) in the third quarter according to INSEE figures. It was down 0.1 points in a quarter, or 17,000 people for a total of 2.3 million people.
It has fluctuated between 7.3% and 7.4% since the fourth quarter of 2021, at a level 0.7 points lower than that of the third quarter of 2021 and 0.9 points lower than that prior to the health crisis (end of 2019).
In the quarter, the youth unemployment rate increased 0.3 points, to 18.3%, but remained below its level a year earlier (-0.9 points) and its pre-crisis level (- 3.3 points).
Youth unemployment is on the rise
For its part, the unemployment rate remained almost stable (-0.1 pp) in the quarter for those aged 25 to 49 at 6.5% and for those aged 50 and over at 5.1%, levels lower than those of the third quarter of 2021.
In the quarter, the unemployment rate for women decreased slightly (-0.2 points), to 7.1%, while that for men remained stable, at 7.6%. In one year, the unemployment rate for women fell more than that for men (-1.0 point versus -0.3 point).
Among those who are inactive in the ILO sense, 1.8 million want a job without being considered unemployed because they are not looking for work or are not available: they constitute the halo around unemployment.
This figure fell slightly in the quarter (-34,000), so that the share of the halo in the population aged 15 to 64 barely fell in the quarter (-0.1 pp to 4.4%), remaining at the same level only in the third quarter of 2021, explains INSEE.
Among the unemployed, an average of 600,000 people in the third quarter of 2022 say they are unemployed and have been looking for one for at least a year. The long-term unemployment rate thus stands at 2.0% of the active population: a very slight decrease in the quarter (-0.1 point), this level is 0.4 point lower than that of a year ago and the lowest since the second quarter of 2009 .
Source: BFM TV
