The registration shows an increase compared to 7.3% of the same period last year and is positioned as the highest data in three years. There are disparities by gender, area of the city that is inhabited and informality grew.
The unemployment rate in the city of Buenos Aires was located in 7.7% in the second quarter of 2025according to the latest data from the Buenos Aires Statistics Directorate. Registration shows an increase against 7.3% of the same period last year and is positioned as the highest indicator in three years. Extrapolated to the total of the Buenos Aires population, it implies that 132,000 people are currently unemployed.
From the unemployment indicator, the growth of informality stands out: the salaried population with retirement coverage It is the 71.6% in front of the 73.9% A year ago, that is, to the 28.4% of employees are not made retirement discounts. This means an interannual decrease of 2.3 percentage points.
The figures arise from Institute of Statistics and Census of the City of Buenos Aires (IDECBA) and they know each other in the previous national data that disseminates the INDEC, Amid a cooling of the economy since February, when the activity touched its highest level. In turn, seasonally it is observed that the second quarter of the year is usually “better” in terms of unemployment, something that is not divided into the last Buenos Aires report, since the trend was almost stable from one quarter to the other.
Unemployment in CABA: Who does it affect?
The focus of greater unemployment in the city is in the South zonewhere unemployment reaches the 10.5%almost three points above the Buenos Aires average. In contrast, the North zone shows a rate of barely 6.1%.
In addition, the situation also exhibits a gender bias: Women face 8.8% unemploymentin front of the 6.7% In men.
The hourly suboccupation – people who work less than 35 hours per week in an involuntarily 10.3% of the economically active population, with a female predominance of 63.6%. If the unemployment and underemployment are added for lack of hours, the Underutilization of the workforce scale at 18.1%.
The data becomes relevant in the prelude to the publication of the INDEC National Labor Marketwhich will announce on Tuesday the official figures of the second quarter.
National unemployment
To anticipate the national unemployment datayou can see the variation of SIPA of employment that in the second quarter suffered a slight setback, mainly for the adjustment of the public sector, according to Luis CamposResearcher at the Institute of Studies and Training of the CTA – Autonomous, in dialogue with Scope.
Regarding what is expected in the unemployment data, Campos said that it could grow in front of last year, although it was skeptical of the possibility that it is above the first quarter of 2025, since this would imply a “too important jump”, taking into account that seasonally it is a period of high employability.
Facing this year, he stressed that an optimistic scenario would be to maintain employment at the current levels, although with “the activity stopped, it is difficult, so the question is about the magnitude of the setback.”
Source: Ambito
