The unemployment rate rose to 4.7%

The number of unemployed people was 232,000 on average for the three months under review, an increase of 33,000 people in one year, while compared to the previous three months, their number increased by over 6,000. The unemployment rate calculated according to the international methodology was 4.7% between December and February, compared to 4.1% a year earlier, and 0.1 percentage points higher compared to the previous three months.

There were 235,400 registered jobseekers in the NFSZ register in February, 10,000 less than a year ago. The number of jobseekers decreased by 4% in one year and increased by 1.1% in one month. The number of vacant positions (quarterly data releases) 2023. IV. at the end of the quarter, it was 74,450, nearly 8,500 less than a year earlier, and compared to the third quarter of last year, the reduction was over 4,100.