Canada Tasso Di Disoccupazione

The unemployment rate in Canada fell to 6.9% in October of 2025 from the four-year high of 7.1% in the previous month, compared with market expectations that it would remain unchanged at 7.1%. National employment increased by a net 66,600 jobs to 21,015,300, extending the jump from the previous month and contrasting sharply with bets that it would drop slightly. Meanwhile, the number of unemployed individuals fell by 49,200 to 1,557,300. Joblessness was lower for core-aged men (-0.2 percentage points to 6%) and was little changed for core-aged women (5.7%). In the meantime, the youth unemployment rate fell by 0.6% to 14.1% for its first decline since February. In turn, long-term unemployment was at 21.3% of the jobless population, comparable to the ratio from the corresponding period of the previous year.