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NUTS 3 areas of Italy by unemployment rate, 2025

Agrigento had the highest unemployment rate of 107 areas in 2025, at 19.82%. Bergamo had the lowest, at 1.35%. The median was 5.09%. Source: Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat, Italy).

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Highest19.82Agrigento
Lowest1.35Bergamo
Median5.09107 areas

Top 40 areas, 2025

Agrigento: 19.82 %Agrigento19.82Napoli: 17.9 %Napoli17.9Taranto: 17.13 %Taranto17.13Foggia: 13.73 %Foggia13.73Palermo: 12.78 %Palermo12.78Catania: 12.71 %Catania12.71Crotone: 12.35 %Crotone12.35Enna: 11.96 %Enna11.96Barletta-Andria-Trani: 11.64 %Barletta-Andria-Trani11.64Siracusa: 11.62 %Siracusa11.62Sassari: 11.42 %Sassari11.42Caltanissetta: 11.31 %Caltanissetta11.31Caserta: 11.28 %Caserta11.28Messina: 11.16 %Messina11.16Oristano: 11.14 %Oristano11.14Catanzaro: 10.39 %Catanzaro10.39Cosenza: 10.3 %Cosenza10.3Lecce: 10.19 %Lecce10.19Salerno: 9.83 %Salerno9.83Nuoro: 8.94 %Nuoro8.94Reggio Calabria: 8.51 %Reggio Calabria8.51Torino: 8.03 %Torino8.03Cagliari: 7.97 %Cagliari7.97Benevento: 7.92 %Benevento7.92Trapani: 7.9 %Trapani7.9Massa-Carrara: 7.82 %Massa-Carrara7.82Vibo Valentia: 7.8 %Vibo Valentia7.8Chieti: 7.71 %Chieti7.71Rieti: 7.29 %Rieti7.29Sud Sardegna: 7.24 %Sud Sardegna7.24Teramo: 7.2 %Teramo7.2Viterbo: 7.18 %Viterbo7.18Ragusa: 7.08 %Ragusa7.08Avellino: 6.82 %Avellino6.82Pescara: 6.7 %Pescara6.7Campobasso: 6.66 %Campobasso6.66Brindisi: 6.41 %Brindisi6.41Ancona: 6.32 %Ancona6.32Lucca: 6.29 %Lucca6.29Bari: 6.29 %Bari6.29Agrigento: 19.82 %Agrigento19.82Napoli: 17.9 %Napoli17.9Taranto: 17.13 %Taranto17.13Foggia: 13.73 %Foggia13.73Palermo: 12.78 %Palermo12.78Catania: 12.71 %Catania12.71Crotone: 12.35 %Crotone12.35Enna: 11.96 %Enna11.96Barletta-Andria-Trani: 11.64 %Barletta-Andria-Trani11.64Siracusa: 11.62 %Siracusa11.62Sassari: 11.42 %Sassari11.42Caltanissetta: 11.31 %Caltanissetta11.31Caserta: 11.28 %Caserta11.28Messina: 11.16 %Messina11.16Oristano: 11.14 %Oristano11.14Catanzaro: 10.39 %Catanzaro10.39Cosenza: 10.3 %Cosenza10.3Lecce: 10.19 %Lecce10.19Salerno: 9.83 %Salerno9.83Nuoro: 8.94 %Nuoro8.94Reggio Calabria: 8.51 %Reggio Calabria8.51Torino: 8.03 %Torino8.03Cagliari: 7.97 %Cagliari7.97Benevento: 7.92 %Benevento7.92Trapani: 7.9 %Trapani7.9Massa-Carrara: 7.82 %Massa-Carrara7.82Vibo Valentia: 7.8 %Vibo Valentia7.8Chieti: 7.71 %Chieti7.71Rieti: 7.29 %Rieti7.29Sud Sardegna: 7.24 %Sud Sardegna7.24Teramo: 7.2 %Teramo7.2Viterbo: 7.18 %Viterbo7.18Ragusa: 7.08 %Ragusa7.08Avellino: 6.82 %Avellino6.82Pescara: 6.7 %Pescara6.7Campobasso: 6.66 %Campobasso6.66Brindisi: 6.41 %Brindisi6.41Ancona: 6.32 %Ancona6.32Lucca: 6.29 %Lucca6.29Bari: 6.29 %Bari6.29
%. Source: Istat, Istat, dataflow 151_914 (Tasso di disoccupazione): unemployment rate, ages 15 to 74, both sexes, annual, by province. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

RankAreas2025 (%)Change on 2024
1Agrigento19.82+4.12 pts
2Napoli17.9-2.07 pts
3Taranto17.13+6.63 pts
4Foggia13.73-2.27 pts
5Palermo12.78-1.5 pts
6Catania12.71+0.19 pts
7Crotone12.35+1.11 pts
8Enna11.96+1.47 pts
9Barletta-Andria-Trani11.64+4.99 pts
10Siracusa11.62-3.43 pts
11Sassari11.42+3.9 pts
12Caltanissetta11.31-2.63 pts
13Caserta11.28+1.34 pts
14Messina11.16-4.75 pts
15Oristano11.14+2.3 pts
16Catanzaro10.39-5.29 pts
17Cosenza10.3-3.31 pts
18Lecce10.19+0.04 pts
19Salerno9.83-2.55 pts
20Nuoro8.94-0.31 pts
21Reggio Calabria8.51-2.2 pts
22Torino8.03+1.72 pts
23Cagliari7.97-0.79 pts
24Benevento7.92-0.46 pts
25Trapani7.9-0.15 pts
26Massa-Carrara7.82+1.65 pts
27Vibo Valentia7.8-5.52 pts
28Chieti7.71+1.94 pts
29Rieti7.29+0.08 pts
30Sud Sardegna7.24-0.9 pts
31Teramo7.2-2.02 pts
32Viterbo7.18+1.36 pts
33Ragusa7.08+1.43 pts
34Avellino6.82-1.9 pts
35Pescara6.7-0.73 pts
36Campobasso6.66-1.73 pts
37Brindisi6.41-4.09 pts
38Ancona6.32-0.5 pts
39Lucca6.29+1.75 pts
40Bari6.29+0.65 pts
41Prato6.14+3.64 pts
42Latina5.94-3.46 pts
43Piacenza5.78+0.52 pts
44Matera5.72-1.4 pts
45Trieste5.59-0.26 pts
46Fermo5.51+1.72 pts
47La Spezia5.46+0.3 pts
48Roma5.31-0.6 pts
49Frosinone5.28-0.89 pts
50Rovigo5.27-1.16 pts
51Macerata5.26-0.61 pts
52Udine5.21+0.48 pts
53Savona5.19-0.56 pts
54Potenza5.09-1.4 pts
55Isernia4.9-1.7 pts
56Vercelli4.88-1.97 pts
57Grosseto4.87-0.37 pts
58Perugia4.78+0.07 pts
59Genova4.7-0.62 pts
60Como4.66-0.78 pts
61Venezia4.63+0.74 pts
62Ferrara4.59-0.35 pts
63Forlì-Cesena4.53+1.13 pts
64Rimini4.48-0.23 pts
65Novara4.37-1.28 pts
66Alessandria4.29-0.69 pts
67L’Aquila4.27-1.8 pts
68Modena4.26+0.03 pts
69Biella4.19+0.86 pts
70Pisa4.17-0.51 pts
71Sondrio4.14-2.5 pts
72Ravenna4.12+0.02 pts
73Reggio nell’Emilia4.11+0.6 pts
74Pesaro e Urbino4.09+0.43 pts
75Gorizia4.09-1.77 pts
76Pavia4.07+0.52 pts
77Asti4.01-2.41 pts
78Parma3.99-0.48 pts
79Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste3.89-0 pts
80Livorno3.88-0.88 pts
81Verona3.87+1.38 pts
82Terni3.85-1.29 pts
83Mantova3.7+0.24 pts
84Firenze3.63+0.96 pts
85Ascoli Piceno3.34-0.38 pts
86Vicenza3.29+0.43 pts
87Cuneo3.16+0.42 pts
88Bologna3.15-1.37 pts
89Siena3.1+0.09 pts
90Monza e della Brianza3.08-0.21 pts
91Varese3.02-0.59 pts
92Imperia3.02-2.61 pts
93Pordenone3+1.22 pts
94Milano2.99-1.66 pts
95Pistoia2.96-3.49 pts
96Arezzo2.91-1.27 pts
97Brescia2.88+0.04 pts
98Treviso2.86+0.5 pts
99Belluno2.8-0.01 pts
100Verbano-Cusio-Ossola2.78-0.02 pts
101Lecco2.58-0.51 pts
102Cremona2.39+0.43 pts
103Padova2.24-0.33 pts
104Trento2.24-0.49 pts
105Lodi2-0.52 pts
106Bolzano-Bozen1.78-0.18 pts
107Bergamo1.35-0.21 pts

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About this ranking

Unemployed people as a percentage of the labour force, using the survey definition of unemployment: without work, available and looking for work.

More on how it is measured
  • Spain: EPA, aged 16 and over.
  • EU: Labour Force Survey, aged 15 to 74.
  • United States: civilian labour force aged 16 and over, from the Current Population Survey for the nation and from BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics models, consistent with that survey, for states, counties and cities.
  • United Kingdom regions: Labour Force Survey, aged 16 and over, seasonally adjusted.
  • Canada: Labour Force Survey, aged 15 and over, seasonally adjusted, for the country and the provinces.
  • Australia: Labour Force Survey, aged 15 and over, seasonally adjusted, for the nation and the six states; the ABS publishes no seasonally adjusted series for the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory.
  • New Zealand: Household Labour Force Survey, aged 15 and over, seasonally adjusted for the country and not seasonally adjusted for regional council areas.
  • Norway: Statistics Norway Labour Force Survey, aged 15 to 74, seasonally adjusted monthly figures.
  • Sweden: Labour Force Survey, aged 15 to 74, seasonally adjusted and smoothed (the series Statistics Sweden gives in its monthly release), national.
  • Switzerland: Swiss Labour Force Survey (SLFS), ILO definition, permanent resident population aged 15 and over, seasonally adjusted quarterly averages, national.
  • For other countries, the source may be OECD survey-based rates, annual survey-based rates compiled by the ILO in ILOSTAT, or annual ILO modelled estimates published by the World Bank.
  • ILO modelled estimates cover ages 15 and over.
  • The World series uses those ILO modelled estimates.

Survey-based for national and Eurostat series. Available for Spain, regions, provinces, EU countries, US states, US counties, US cities (those of 25,000 or more and smaller New England cities), United Kingdom regions, Canadian provinces, Australia and its six states, New Zealand with 10 of its regions, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland (national), not Spanish municipalities. For Spanish municipalities use registered_unemployment_rate.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the areas are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

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Source: Istat. Istat, dataflow 151_914 (Tasso di disoccupazione): unemployment rate, ages 15 to 74, both sexes, annual, by province. https://esploradati.istat.it/SDMXWS/rest/data/IT1,151_914,1.0/A..UNEM_R.9.Y15-74.99.TOTAL.TOTAL?startPeriod=2018. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). No changes made to source values.

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Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat, Italy). (2026). Istat, dataflow 151_914 (Tasso di disoccupazione): unemployment rate, ages 15 to 74, both sexes, annual, by province (NUTS 3 areas of Italy by unemployment rate, 2025) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://esploradati.istat.it/SDMXWS/rest/data/IT1,151_914,1.0/A..UNEM_R.9.Y15-74.99.TOTAL.TOTAL?startPeriod=2018

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Istat, dataflow 151_914 (Tasso di disoccupazione): unemployment rate, ages 15 to 74, both sexes, annual, by province, NUTS 3 areas of Italy by unemployment rate, 2025. Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat, Italy), 12 Oct. 2026, https://esploradati.istat.it/SDMXWS/rest/data/IT1,151_914,1.0/A..UNEM_R.9.Y15-74.99.TOTAL.TOTAL?startPeriod=2018. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/unemployment-rate/italy-provinces. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat, Italy). 2026. Istat, dataflow 151_914 (Tasso di disoccupazione): unemployment rate, ages 15 to 74, both sexes, annual, by province. NUTS 3 areas of Italy by unemployment rate, 2025. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://esploradati.istat.it/SDMXWS/rest/data/IT1,151_914,1.0/A..UNEM_R.9.Y15-74.99.TOTAL.TOTAL?startPeriod=2018. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/unemployment-rate/italy-provinces.

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Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat, Italy) (2026) Istat, dataflow 151_914 (Tasso di disoccupazione): unemployment rate, ages 15 to 74, both sexes, annual, by province, NUTS 3 areas of Italy by unemployment rate, 2025 [Dataset]. Available at: https://esploradati.istat.it/SDMXWS/rest/data/IT1,151_914,1.0/A..UNEM_R.9.Y15-74.99.TOTAL.TOTAL?startPeriod=2018, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/unemployment-rate/italy-provinces (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{istituto_nuts_3_areas_of_2025,
  author = {{Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat, Italy)}},
  title = {{Istat, dataflow 151\_914 (Tasso di disoccupazione): unemployment rate, ages 15 to 74, both sexes, annual, by province: NUTS 3 areas of Italy by unemployment rate, 2025}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
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  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/unemployment-rate/italy-provinces. Publisher attribution: Source: Istat. Istat, dataflow 151\_914 (Tasso di disoccupazione): unemployment rate, ages 15 to 74, both sexes, annual, by province. https://esploradati.istat.it/SDMXWS/rest/data/IT1,151\_914,1.0/A..UNEM\_R.9.Y15-74.99.TOTAL.TOTAL?startPeriod=2018. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). No changes made to source values.},
}
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Which area has the highest unemployment rate?

Agrigento, with 19.82% in 2025, according to Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat, Italy).

Which area has the lowest unemployment rate?

Bergamo, with 1.35% in 2025.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat, Italy), Istat, dataflow 151_914 (Tasso di disoccupazione): unemployment rate, ages 15 to 74, both sexes, annual, by province. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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