The unemployment rate in Azerbaijan in the third quarter amounted to 5.02 %

Unemployment in Azerbaijan in the III quarter of 2013 was 5.02 %, down 0.24 percentage points compared with the same period in 2012. Turan was told at the State Committee of Statistics (SCS).

The unemployment rate for the third quarter compared with the previous quarter fell by 0.07 percentage points Total according to SCS, in the third quarter the number of the country's unemployed by the ILO methodology was 238.1 thousand people, which is 6.1 thousand less than in the comparable period in 2012 . The number of employed people in the country on an annualized basis ( the third quarter of 2012 ) grew by 109.6 thousand people or 2.49% .

For comparison, in the other South Caucasus countries, unemployment is about 15-16 % of the economically active population. Meanwhile, the number of unemployed in Armenia (about 230 thousand) is almost equal to the index for Azerbaijan.

It should be emphasized that only made public in Azerbaijan is the absolute indicator of unemployment. . In other countries, however, they provide information on the age, gender and regional structures of the unemployed. NGOs do not agree with the official data on unemployment, considering them too politicized. - 08B-