Bosnia and Herzegovina Unemployment Rate (Monthly, Eurostat)

## What this measures

The share of Bosnia and Herzegovina's labour force that has no job, is available to work and is looking for one, each month, seasonally adjusted, both sexes. Eurostat publishes it on the International Labour Organization definition alongside the EU members, so it compares with them.

## Why it matters

Bosnia and Herzegovina is an official EU candidate country; this puts its labour market on the same footing as the EU's on the Europe map.

## How to read it

Higher means more people out of work. Watch the direction over three months, and compare with the EU rate on the same month.

## What it does not say

Eurostat compiles it from Bosnia and Herzegovina's national labour force survey; figures are revised and can differ from the national office's headline (age range, survey timing). It arrives a month or so after most EU members.

## Source

Eurostat, Unemployment by sex and age, monthly data (`une_rt_m`), geo BA, seasonally adjusted, total, % of active population: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/une_rt_m/default/table. Palanor reads it every day. Source: Eurostat. Eurostat's copyright notice authorises commercial reuse of data for EU and EFTA members and "official EU acceding and candidate countries"; Bosnia and Herzegovina is a candidate.