Unemployment rate in Bremen
Unemployment rate in Bremen stood at 11.5 percent in 2025, according to Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMBFSFJ) – Digital Gender Equality Atlas. It is one of the indicators in the Gender gaps by federal state table (Value · Annual), with a complete series running from 2008 to 2025. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Gender gaps by federal state table
| Indicator | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Both sexes2 | 11.5 | 11.1 | 10.6 | 10.2 | 10.7 | 11.2 | 9.9 | 9.8 | 10.2 | 10.5 | |
| Women | 11.2 | 10.8 | 10.5 | 10 | 10.1 | 10.3 | 9.3 | 9.3 | 9.7 | 10 | |
| Men | 11.8 | 11.3 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 11.2 | 11.9 | 10.5 | 10.3 | 10.7 | 11 |
Understanding unemployment rate in Bremen
Encompassing both municipalities of the federal state, this series determines the share of Bremen's civilian workforce registered as unemployed. The metric includes all individuals registered with public employment offices who are without work and immediately available for placement. It omits non-registered job searchers, retired individuals, students, and participants currently placed in statutory qualification or employment promotion measures. Serving as the aggregate series for the federal state, it provides the general regional benchmark that the sex-specific sub-rows disaggregate.
In analyzing this regional series, year-on-year comparisons provide an accurate framework for evaluating structural developments in labour market slack. Because the data is presented as an annual average, intra-year seasonal fluctuations and administrative cut-offs are smoothed out across the calendar cycle. Cross-border commuter movements that alter the local employment base must also be considered when comparing this indicator with larger territorial jurisdictions. In addition, users should account for historical series breaks resulting from census population recalculations or revisions in administrative registration criteria that affect official registers over time.
Frequently asked questions
- How does the administrative structure of this two-city state influence the measure?
- The series combines registered jobseekers and labour force data across both municipalities within the state, presenting a single regional rate.
- How do cross-border commuting flows affect the calculation?
- While the unemployed are counted where they live, commuters entering the state territory expand the workplace-based employment components of the denominator.
- Does this measure include workers placed on short-time work schemes?
- Workers on temporary short-time work arrangements retain their employment contracts and are not counted as registered unemployed.