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November's unemployment rate stood at 6.7% and the December¿s one (provisional) at 6.9%
Monthly Employment and Unemployment Estimates
November's unemployment rate stood at 6.7% and the December¿s one (provisional) at 6.9% - December 2019
29 January 2020

Summary

In November 2019, the unemployment rate stood at 6.9%, up 0.2 percentage points (pp) from the previous month and up 0.3 pp from three months before, while having remained unchanged from the same month of 2018. That value corresponds to a null revision of the provisional estimate released one month ago.
In comparison to the previous month, the unemployed population has increased by 9.8 thousand people (2.9%) and the employed population has decreased by 10.4 thousand people (0.2%).
The provisional unemployment rate estimate for December 2019 was 6.9%, up 0.2 pp from the previous month’s level.


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