The unemployment rate in Ukraine in the fourth quarter of 2020 increased by 0.6% QoQ, from 9.5% to 10.1%, with the actual number of officially unemployed citizens amounting to 1.8 million, the State Statistics Service reported.
The number of employed citizens aged 15-70 in the fourth quarter of 2020 amounted to 15.7 million, while the employment rate of the population aged 15-70 stood at 55.3%.
The statistics agency noted that the data provided did not cover the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol and the temporarily occupied parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. (UNIAN/Business World Magazine)