RSS
In the fourth quarter of 2018, the employment rate for the working age population (15-64 years) was 64.5%
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In the fourth quarter of 2018, the employment rate1 for the population aged 20-64 years was 69.5%, at a distance of 0.5 percentage points of 70% established in the context of the Strategy Europe 2020.
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In the fourth quarter of 2018, the economically active population of Romania was 8956 thousand persons, out of which 8588 thousand were employed persons and 368 thousand unemployed persons.
Unemployment rate rose to 4.1pct in the fourth quarter of 2018, up 0.2 percentage points from the previous quarter, the highest level, 16.3pct, being registered among young people aged 15-24, according to data published on Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
By gender, the gap between the two unemployment rates was 1.1 percentage points (4.6pct for men versus 3.5pct for women) and by residential areas 1.2 percentage points (4.8pct in rural areas compared to 3.6pct in urban areas).
In the last quarter of last year, the employment rate of the working-age population (15-64 years) was 64.5pct, down from 1.7pct in the previous quarter.
In the fourth quarter of 2018, the employment rate of the people aged 20-64 was 69.5pct, by 0.5 percentage points below the national target of 70pct set in the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy.
Romania's active population was 8,956 million people, of whom 8.588 million were employed and 368,000 were unemployed.