The unemployment rate estimated for December 2014 was 13.4%. This value is down 0.1 percentage points from the one estimated for November 2014.
The unemployed population was estimated to be 689.6 thousand people, down 0.7% from November 2014 (less 4.8 thousand). The employed population was estimated to be 4,441.5 thousand people, increasing 0.1% (more 6.4 thousand) from the previous month.
For these estimates, it was considered the population aged 15 to 74 and the values were seasonally adjusted.