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NINETY-FIVE PERCENT OF UNEMPLOYED LOCATED IN URBAN AREAS


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YEREVAN, AUGUST 21, ARMENPRESS: According to the latest figures, released by the Armenian National Statistical Service, the economically active population in Armenia in the first half of the year stood at 1 million 428,000, of which 90 percent had jobs, and ten percent were jobless.

According to the same source, 72.7 percent of people with jobs were engaged in the private sector, 26.6 percent in the public sector and 0.7 percent in non-governmental and religious organizations.

At the end of July 169,400 people were registered with local unemployment agencies, of which 86.7 percent were granted the status of unemployed. Almost 95 percent of the unemployed is concentrated in urban areas. Sixty-five percent of them were women.

 

 

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