New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the seasonally adjusted Live Register dipped by 0.1% to 165,500 people over the month to February.
The CSO said the unadjusted Live Register total stood at 165,307 people for February, with 55.5% of those men.
It noted that the 25-34 years age group made up the largest number of those on the Live Register last month at 23.3% of the total.
Kildare was the only county that recorded an increase in the number of people on the Live Register in the 12 months to February 2025, rising by 45 people (0.7%).
The Live Register is not designed to measure unemployment as it includes part-time workers as well as seasonal and casual workers who are entitled to Jobseeker’s Benefit or Jobseeker’s Allowance.
Figures from the Central Statistics Office earlier this week show that the unemployment rate fell to 3.9% in February, from 4% a month earlier, to match a previous record low of the early 2000s.
The previous low of 3.9% was hit between October 2000 and April 2001 in the early days of the “Celtic Tiger” boom. The jobless rate had previously provisionally matched that level during 2023 and at one point fell to 3.8%, before being revised higher
