Ireland among lowest in EU for job vacancies

Ireland’s job vacancy rate stands at 1% which is slightly higher than Bulgaria and Romania, both at 0.7%, as well as Spain and Poland, both at 0.8%.

The job vacancy rate across the EU has dropped to 2.5% with Ireland having among the lowest across all members, new data from Eurostat shows.

In addition, the employment rate among 20- to 64 year-olds across the EU ticked up slightly by 0.1% to 75.5%.

Job vacancy, as defined by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), is where there is a job currently unoccupied or a position is about to become vacant and is being advertised. 

According to Eurostat, during the last three months of 2023, the job vacancy rate among EU members stood at 2.5% — down from 2.8% during the same period in 2022.

💼 Between Q3 - Q4 2023, the #employment rate rose in 11 EU countries and decreased in 10.

Highest increases in:
🇭🇷Croatia (+1.5 percentage points)
🇬🇷Greece (+0.7 pp)

Largest decreases:
🇱🇺Luxembourg (-1.0 pp)
🇱🇹Lithuania (-0.6 pp)

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— EU_Eurostat (@EU_Eurostat) March 15, 2024

The data shows that Ireland’s vacancy rate stands at 1% which is slightly higher than Bulgaria and Romania, both at 0.7%, as well as Spain and Poland, both at 0.8%.

In contrast, Belgium has the highest job vacancy rate at 4.4% followed by the Netherlands at 4.2%, Austria at 4.1% and Germany at 3.9%.