20 June 2003 19:00
Russian unemployment down 2 per cent in May
Moscow, 20 June: Russia's unemployment computed under the International Labour Organization methodology was down
by 2 per cent last May against April to 6.174 million, or 8.7 per cent of the economically active population, the State
Statistics Committee told Prime-TASS on Friday [20 June].
Official unemployment in May was down by 3 per cent to 1.584 million (25.76 per cent of all jobless).
Since May, 2002 unemployment increased by 11.7 per cent (official unemployment, by 6.7 per cent).
Russia's economically active population as at the end of May 2003 was estimated at 71 million - half of the
country's population.
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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