# EU/EEA Unemployment Rate by Country (Eurostat)

> EU/EEA Unemployment Rate by Country (Eurostat) is a paid API for AI agents from api.vextorium.com, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-15).

Returns monthly seasonally-adjusted unemployment rates (total, under-25, 25–74) for any EU/EEA country, the EU aggregate, or the euro area, with optional full-ranking mode; sourced from official Eurostat data.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/eu-unemployment?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/eu-eea-unemployment-rate-by-country-eurostat-a22662b9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_WkV8YMDFxZOmwiM-km9_i

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## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability eu-eea-unemployment-rate-by-country-eurostat-a22662b9 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the latest seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate for Spain — total, under-25, and 25–74 — with the last 12 months of history?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need official, seasonally-adjusted EU/EEA unemployment statistics broken down by age group (total, under-25, 25–74) directly from Eurostat. It is ideal for economic research, dashboard monitoring, country comparisons, or generating EU-wide rankings. Prefer it over general web search or unofficial sources when data accuracy, official sourcing, and structured time-series format are required.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unsupported country code returns an error or empty result
- months value outside 1–60 range may be rejected or clamped
- Data may lag by 1–2 months depending on Eurostat release schedule
- Some smaller EEA countries may have missing or null values for certain age bands
- Payment failure via x402 protocol blocks the request

## How this service works

Monthly seasonally adjusted unemployment rate (total, under 25 and 25-74) of any EU/EEA country, the EU or the euro area; with country=todos, a ranking of all countries. Official Eurostat data.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the country ISO code and name, the most recent month's total/under-25/25–74 unemployment percentages, a time series array of up to 60 monthly data points (each with the same three rate fields), the Eurostat source attribution, and the last update timestamp. When country='todos', returns a ranking of all covered countries.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "months": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Months of history (1-60, default 12)"
  },
  "country": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "ISO code (ES, DE, FR...), EU, EA or todos"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "last": {
   "month": "2026-08",
   "total_pct": 10,
   "smallest_25_pct": 22.7,
   "from_25_to_74_pct": 8.9
  },
  "name": "Spain",
  "series": [
   {
    "month": "2026-03",
    "total_pct": 10.3,
    "smallest_25_pct": 24.3,
    "from_25_to_74_pct": 9.1
   },
   {
    "month": "2026-04",
    "total_pct": 10.2,
    "smallest_25_pct": 24.1,
    "from_25_to_74_pct": 9.1
   }
  ],
  "source": "Eurostat (une_rt_m, CC BY 4.0)",
  "country": "ES",
  "updated": "2026-10-01T11:00:00+0200"
 }
}
```

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