REUTERS
The unemployment rate in Ukraine calculated in keeping with International Labour Organization (ILO) standards for employees aged from 15 to 70 grew to 10.1%, or 1.8 million people, in the first quarter of 2017 from 9.9%, or 1.77 million people, in the first quarter of 2016, according to the Ukrainian State Statistics Service.
Unemployment in Q1 2017 was 0.4 percentage points up from Q4 2016, it said.
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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.