April 2022:

• The active population (5,186.9 thousand) decreased by 0.1% from March, remained practically unchanged from January and increased by 2.2% from April 2021.

• Similarly, also the employed population (4,879.2 thousand) decreased from the previous month (0.2%), remained practically unchanged from three months before and increased from one year before (3.4%).

• The unemployed population (307.7 thousand) increased by 0.3% from March of 2022, remained practically unchanged from January of that year and decreased 13.8% from April 2021.

• The unemployment rate stood at 5.9%, the same value as in the previous month and as in three months before, down 1.1 percentage points(pp) from a year earlier.

• The inactive population (2,473.7 thousand) increased by 0.2% from the previous month and decreased by 0.1% and 4.9%, respectively, from January 2022 and April 2021.

• The labour underutilisation rate was estimated at 11.4%, the same value as in the previous month, down 0.1 pp from three months before and down 1.7 pp from the same month of 2021.

May 2022 :

• The active population (5,160.6 thousand) decreased by 0.5% both from April and February 2022, having increased by 0.3% from May 2021.

• The employed population (4,846.5 thousand) decreased by 0.7% from the previous month and by 0.8% from three months before, having increased by 1.3% from a year earlier.

• The unemployed population (314.1 thousand) increased by 2.1% from the previous month and by 4.3% from February 2022, having decreased from May 2021 (12.0%).

• The unemployment rate stood at 6.1%, up 0.2 pp from the previous month, up 0.3 pp from three months before, but down 0.8 pp from a year before.

• The inactive population (2,499.8 thousand) increased both from the previous month (1.1%) and from three months before (1.0%) and decreased from a year earlier (1.4%).

• The labour underutilisation rate stood at 11.5%, up 0.1 pp from the previous month, up 0.2 pp from three months before and down 1.2 pp from May 2021.