Q3 of 2019: unemployment down 1.1%
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In Q3 of 2019, the unemployment rate for men was 1.7 per cent higher than for women. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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In the third quarter (Q3) of 2019 the unemployment rate in Georgia decreased by 1.1 per cent compared to the same period of last year and amounted to 11.1 per cent, show data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
In Q3 of 2019 the economically active population was made up by 62.5 per cent of the working age population (population aged 15 and older).
In comparison to the same period of 2018, the economic activity rate decreased by 1.8 per cent, while the employment rate decreased by 0.9 per cent.
In urban settlements the employment rate decreased by 0.7 per cent, while in rural settlements it decreased by 1 per cent.
In urban settlements the economic activity rate decreased by 2.1 per cent, while in rural settlements it decreased by 1.4 per cent.
Unemployment rate by urban-rural distribution and by quarters in 2018-2019, %. Photo: Geostat.
In Q3 of 2019, the unemployment rate for men was 1.7 per cent higher than for women.
Unemployment rate by gender and quarters, %. Photo: Geostat.
The economic activity rate was higher for men than for women. In Q3 of 2019, the activity rate for women was 54.2 per cent, while it was 71.9 per cent for men.
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The annual unemployment rate in Georgia decreased by 1.2 percentage points and equalled 12.7% in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2018.
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The unemployment rate in Georgia decreased by 0.7 percentage points to 11.4% in the second quarter of 2019, says the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
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The annual unemployment rate in Georgia decreased by 1.2 percentage points and equalled 12.8% in the first quarter (Q1) of 2019, says the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
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The annual unemployment rate in Georgia decreased by 1.2 percentage points and equalled 12.7% in 2018. Last year, the economically active population constituted 63.9% of the working population (population of 15 years and older).
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The National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) intends to change its methodology for computing unemployment in the country, said the director of the office Gogita Todradze.
12,525 foreign citizens were working in Georgia in 2019 which is 828 more compared to the previous year, show data from the Revenue Service.
The unemployment rate in Georgia decreased 1.1 percentage points to 11.6 per cent in 2019 in comparison to the year before, says the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat). Last year the economically active population constituted 62.9 per cent of the working age population (population aged 15 and older).
In Q3 2020 the unemployment rate in Georgia increased by 0.7 per cent compared to the same period of last year and amounted to 11.9 per cent, show data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
In the fourth quarter of 2020 the unemployment rate in Georgia increased by 3.8% compared to the same period of last year and rose to 20.4%, show data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).