The number of unemployed persons decreased by 9.500 to 150.100, while the number of employed increased by 1.800 to 795.300.

Meanwhile, the labor force participation rate ticked down to 56% from 56.5% a year earlier, and the employment rate slowed down to 47.3% from 47.06%. According to the report, the labor force in N. Macedonia numbered 945,412 persons in the Q2 of 2021.