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22 percent drop in number of registered unemployed since the beginning of the year

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The number of unemployed, registered at employment offices, has dropped by over 22 percent in the period from the beginning of the year until the end of September.

At the end of September the number of unemployed stood at 183,846, which is 0.1 percent down on the previous month, and 13.8 percent down year-on-year. According to Employment Agency data, the level of registered unemployment in September was 5.6 percent, the same percentage as in August 2018, but is down by 0.9 percentage points on a yearly basis.

There were 17,063 job vacancies on the primary labour market in September, 65.8 percent of them in the private sector. The biggest share of vacancies are in the processing industry, education, administration and commerce, hotels and restaurants, construction etc.  



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