The unemployment rate estimated for the 3rd quarter of 2013 was 15.6%. This value is down 0.2 percentage points from the same quarter of 2012 and down 0.8 percentage points from the previous quarter.
There were 838.6 thousand unemployed people, which corresponds to a year-on-year decrease of 3.7% and to a quarterly decrease of 5.3% (less 32.3 thousand and less 47.4 thousand people, respectively).
There were 4 553.6 thousand employed people, which corresponds to a year-on-year decrease of 2.2% and to a quarterly increase of 1.1% (less 102.7 thousand and more 48.0 thousand people, respectively).