Unemployment rate stagnated in January

Romania’s unemployment rate was stable at 7.3% in January compared with the previous month, but up from 7.1% in the same period of 2013, seasonally adjusted data from the statistics institute INS showed Friday.

The number of unemployed individuals (aged 15 – 74) estimated for January 2014 is 730,000 people, won from the previous month which recorded 732,000 unemployed, and up from the similar period last year (when there were 708,000 unemployed).

Based on gender, the unemployment rate for men is higher by 1.3 percent than women: 7,8 percent for men and 6.5 percent for women.

Among adults (aged 25 – 74), the unemployment rate is estimated at 5.8 percent for January 2014 representing 73.6 percent of the total: 6.4 percent for men and 5.1 percent for women.

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