The figure for August was thus only 18,000 people (0.4%) lower than in August last year. Interestingly, in August this year, the employment rates of 15-64 year olds of both sexes were 0.2 percentage points higher than a year earlier.
Despite rising sharply from March to June, the number of unemployed has been steadily declining since July; however, in August of this year, despite the slowdown, 28,000 more people were still looking for work than a year earlier.
In July, the average number of unemployed was 218,000 and the unemployment rate was 4.7%, compared to the EU average of 7.2%.
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