Unemployment on the rise in Belarus

The number of officially registered unemployed is growing in Belarus. At the beginning of February, there were 47.7K people and it is 4.4K more than at the beginning of the year. Thus, the unemployment rate amounted to 1.1% of the economically active population. The numbers have reached the level of 10 years ago.

Earlier, the official unemployment rate did not exceed 1%, but in April 2015 the level was reached.

As reported by the National Statistical Committee, for the third month in a row in the country the number of fired workers has exceeded the number of newly employed staff. For example, in January, 7,611 people were fired than recruited.

The most active dismissals of workers last month took place in construction (-45%), in the real estate business (- 38.9%), financial and insurance sector (- 36.2%), industry (- 28.3%).

At the same time more people were hired than fired in the field of ​​information and communication (+ 47%), in the field of art, sport, fun and recreation (+ 30%), education (+ 24%), and in health and social services (+ 3.9%).

Last month, in the country appeared 1,615 new jobs.

The economy employs 4 million 454.7 thousand people.