Unemployment: Numbers close to pandemic high

Adjusted for seasonal and calendar effects, the unemployment rate continues to approach the peak seen during the coronavirus pandemic: The peak was reached in June 2020 with an adjusted 2.928 million unemployed; the current figure is 2.922. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is 6.3 percent.

The number of reported job vacancies, which has been declining since 2022, continued to fall in April, reaching a seasonally adjusted 646,000. This makes it increasingly difficult for the unemployed to find a new job: The "chance of exit" into employment or training, calculated by the Federal Employment Agency, fell in April to its lowest level since this indicator began being calculated in 2008.