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Tunisia-Unemployment rates reaches 15.1 % in Tunisia

 

Despite the return of growth, unemployment rates reached 15.3 % with around 628.3 thousand unemployed individuals according to recent indicators of employment and unemployment published by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

The unemployment percentage dropped slightly opposed to the second quarter of 2019 which registered 15.3 % compared to 15.5% of last year.

The number of unemployed graduates in higher education is estimated at 262.700 people with a rate of 28.6% compared to 29.7 in the third quarter of 2018.

The labour force reached 3,543,600 people in comparison to thousand 3,502,700 in the third quarter of 2018.

This rate is estimated at 2, 603 200 for men and 940.400 for women.
In the economic activity employment scattered to 52.4 % in the services sector,18.3% in industrial plants, 15.7% in non-industrial manufactories and 13.7% in the Agriculture and Fisheries sector.

 

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