Unemployment in Ukraine exceeds 10% in Q1

REUTERS

Unemployment in Q1 2017 was 0.4 percentage points up from Q4 2016, it said.

Read alsoActual unemployment rate in Ukraine almost five times higher than official figures – ministerAt the same time, the unemployment rate for people of working age (women aged 15-58 and men aged 15-59) in January-March 2017 stood at 10.5%.

The Ukrainian State Statistics Service reports that the share of the employed from among the population aged 15-70 in Q1 2017 decreased year-over-year by 0.4 percentage points, to 55.2%, or 15.9 million people. The share of the employed from among the people of working age working fell by 0.1 percentage points, to 63.3%.

The report does not include data from Russian-occupied areas in Donbas and Crimea.