20.01.2023

HOW MANY WERE UNEMPLOYED IN OUR COUNTRY IN THE PAST YEAR

The registered unemployed in the labor offices throughout the country for the past year 2022 are 264,434, and those who have started work - 164,426 people.

This is indicated by the preliminary data from the specialized monitoring of the labor market of the National Statistical Institute and the Employment Agency. In the last week of last year, the newly registered unemployed were 1,488 people.

The observation of the labor market for last year shows the trends by area and by week for the period January 3, 2022 - January 1, 2023, and according to the latest data, the population of working age is slightly over 4 million and 106 thousand people.

Throughout the past year, there has been a tendency for the newly registered unemployed to outnumber those employed, with the only exception being the week from June 27 to July 3. At that time, those who found a living through the employment offices were a little over 10,000 people and were twice as many as registered.

The peak of those registered in the labor offices for the past year was 8,798 people - for the period from January 3 to 9. In total, in four weeks of 2022, newly registered people exceeded 8,000 people. The data show that for the last week of last year, from December 26 to January 1, 2023, 744 people entered the workforce, and the largest number of them - 64 - were in the Blagoevgrad region.