January 2022:

• The active population (5,180.7 thousand) decreased by 0.1% from the previous month and increased by 0.2% from three months before and by 3.7% from the same month of 2021.

• The employed population (4,882.4 thousand), similarly, decreased from the previous month (0.1%) and increased from three months before (0.9%) and from a year earlier (5.0%).

• The unemployed population (298.3 thousand) decreased from the three periods under comparison: 1.3%, 9.2% and 14.3%, respectively.

• The unemployment rate stood at 5.8% as in the previous month, down 0.6 percentage points (pp) from three months before and down 1.2 pp from a year earlier.

• The inactive population (2,483.0 thousand) also decreased from the three comparison periods: 0.6%, 1.2% and 7.3%, respectively.

• The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 11.2%, down 0.1 pp from the previous month, down 0.5 pp from three months before and down 2.5 pp from a year earlier.

February 2022:

• The active population (5,165.8 thousand) decreased by 0.3% from January 2022 and by 0.2% from November 2021, having increased by 3.0% from February 2021.

• The employed population (4,868.3 thousand) decreased by 0.3% from the previous month, having increased by 0.3% from three months before and by 4.2% from a year earlier.

• The unemployed population (297.5 thousand) remained practically unchanged from the previous month, having decreased both from November 2021 (8.0%) and from February of that year (13.3%).

• The unemployment rate stood at 5.8%, the same value as in the previous month, down 0.4 pp from three months before and down 1.0 pp from a year before.

• The inactive population (2,497.0 thousand) increased by 0.6% from the previous month and decreased by 0.5% and by 6.1% from three months before and from a year earlier, respectively.

• The labour underutilisation rate stood at 11.0%, down from the three periods under comparison: 0.2%, 0.7% and 2.5%, respectively.