Eurostat — Unemployment by sex and age, annual (une_rt_a)
Annual unemployment statistics broken down by sex and age (dataset une_rt_a), published by Eurostat and accessible via the SDMX 2.1 REST API. The data are structured along the dimension path freq.age.unit.sex.geo, with age recorded here as Y15-74; the geo dimension covers EU member states alongside candidate and EFTA countries. Observation flags mark methodological breaks in the series, for example the 2021 slice carries a break-in-series flag for Ireland, North Macedonia and Turkey. The dataset supports comparative analysis of labour market conditions across European countries over time.Unemployment by sex and age — annual data (une_rt_a), official EU-wide series over SDMX 2.1 REST. Key path freq.age.unit.sex.geo (age uses Y15-74 in this flow — dimension vocabularies are per-flow); geo mixes country and candidate/EFTA codes. OBS_FLAG marks methodological breaks in-payload: the 2021 slice carries b (break in time series) for IE, MK and TR.
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Data schema (8 fields)
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| freqTime frequency | dimension | Time frequency of the observation, here annual.1 codes (e.g. Annual) |
| ageAge class | dimension | Age class of the population group covered by the observation.7 codes (e.g. From 15 to 24 years, From 15 to 29 years, From 15 to 74 years) |
| unitUnit of measure | dimension | Unit of measure for the observation, e.g. thousand persons or percentage.3 codes (e.g. Thousand persons, Percentage of total population, Percentage of population in the labour force) |
| sex | dimension | Sex breakdown of the observation: total, males or females.3 codes (e.g. Total, Males, Females) |
| geoGeopolitical entity (reporting) | dimension | Reporting country or geopolitical entity for the observation.38 codes (e.g. European Union - 27 countries (from 2020), Euro area – 21 countries (from 2026), Euro area – 20 countries (2023-2025)) |
| TIME_PERIODTime | time | Reference year of the observation.Time dimension — filter with startPeriod / endPeriod query params. |
| OBS_VALUEObservation value | number | Numeric value of the unemployment observation for the given cell.The observed numeric value for each cell. |
| OBS_FLAGObservation flag | attribute | Flag noting methodological notes, such as breaks in the time series.Flag noting methodological notes, such as breaks in the time series. |
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Sample data (5 records)
| freq | age | unit | sex | geo | TIME_PERIOD | OBS_VALUE | OBS_FLAG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Y15-24 | THS_PER | T | EU27_2020 | 2025 | 2961 | — |
| A | Y15-24 | THS_PER | T | EA21 | 2025 | 2382 | — |
| A | Y15-24 | THS_PER | T | EA20 | 2025 | 2367 | — |
| A | Y15-24 | THS_PER | T | BE | 2025 | 83 | — |
| A | Y15-24 | THS_PER | T | BG | 2025 | 15 | — |
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curl -s 'https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/sdmx/2.1/dataflow/ESTAT?detail=allstubs' -H 'Accept: application/vnd.sdmx.structure+xml;version=2.1'All dataflows (datasets) published by this agency, as SDMX-ML.
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