The unemployment rate remained almost stable in the third quarter of 2021 (+0.1 point compared to the previous quarter) to stand at 8.1% of the working population in France (excluding Mayotte), according to figures released on Friday by INSEE.

This is worse than what the National Institute of Statistics had forecast in its last economic report, in early October, anticipating an unemployment rate of 7.6% in the third quarter.

INSEE thus estimates the number of unemployed, according to the International Labor Office, at 2.4 million people, or 52,000 more over the quarter.

The unemployment rate "has fluctuated between 8% and 8.1% since the fourth quarter of 2020, at the same level as in the fourth quarter of 2019, before the health crisis," says INSEE.

Over the quarter, the unemployment rate increased for 15-24 year olds (+0.3 point) and stabilized for 25-49 year olds and 50 and over, details INSEE.

Compared to the respective pre-crisis levels (end of 2019), it is clearly below for young people (–1.2 point) and almost identical for people of middle age (–0.1 point) and seniors (+0.1 point).

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