ANKARA - The TurkStat has announced the Labor Force Statistics for October 2019. Marking a 1.8-point increase in comparison with last October and a 0.4-point decrease when compared to September 2019, the unemployment rate is 13.4 percent.
The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced the Labor Force Statistics for October 2019 today (January 10).
Accordingly, the number of unemployed people aged 15 and over has increased by 608 thousand to 4 million 396 thousand people in October 2019 when compared with the same period of the previous year.
As for the unemployment rate, it has marked a 1.8-percentage point increase and been calculated as 13.4 percent. Non-agricultural unemployment rate has occurred as 15.7 percent with a 2.1-point increase.
In September, the rate of unemployment across Turkey was announced as 13.8 percent and the number of unemployed as 4 million 566 thousand.
In October 2019, the number of employed people has decreased by 527 thousand to 28 million 343 thousand people when compared with the same period of the previous year. The employment rate has occurred as 45.9 percent, marking a 1.6-point decrease.
The number of agricultural employment has decreased by 270 thousand people, industry has decreased by 30 thousand people and construction has decreased by 305 thousand people while the number of employment in services has increased by 78 thousand people.
According to distribution of employment by sector; 17.9 percent have been employed in agriculture, 20.0 percent employed in industry, 5.8 percent in construction and 56.3 percent have been employed in services.