Unemployment rate of third-country nationals EU 28, 2006-2014 in %

The overall unemployment rate of non-EU migrants has followed the total rate. The former declined from 15.2% to the lowest value so far of 14% in 2008, prior to the economic and financial crisis (see Figure 4). In 2009, the value increased steeply to 19.1% while unemployment of the total labour population in the EU-28 was 8.6%.