The unemployment rate estimated for the 1st quarter of 2014 was 15.1%. This value is down 2.4 percentage points from the same quarter of 2013 and 0.2 percentage points from the previous quarter.
There were 788.1 thousand unemployed people, which corresponds to a year-on-year decrease of 15.0% and to a quarterly decrease of 2.5% (less 138.7 thousand and less 19.9 thousand people, respectively).
There were 4 426.9 thousand employed people, which corresponds to a year-on-year increase of 1.7% and to a quarterly decrease of 0.9% (more 72.3 thousand and less 42.0 thousand people, respectively).