Unemployment in Turkey rate decreased by 1.1 percent points year-over-year to 12% in 2021, data from the Statistical Institute showed on Wednesday.
the number of Unemployed – 15 years and over – Decreased by 121,000 to 3.9 million in The Turkish Statistical Institute (Turkstat) said that 2021 compared to 2020.
On the other hand, seasonally adjusted Measure of The data showed that the labor shortage fell one percentage point to 24.4%.
It was a measure of labor shortages on down trend for a lot of last year After peaking at 29.5% in January 2021 under the influence of measures for combat COVID-19 pandemic.
The unemployment rate was 10.7% for men and 14.7% for womenInstitute said.
Statistics body also Note that the number of The number of employees reached 28.8 million with 2.1 million increase and employment rate It was 45.2%, registering an increase of 2.5 percentage points year-over-year in 2021.
The agency said that employment force It was 32.7 million with A 1.98 million increase and employment force sharing rate reached 51.4% with 2.3 percentage point increase in 2021 compared to before year.
youth unemployment rate for 15-24 years group decreased 2.3 percent points The data showed that 22.6%. The unemployment rate in This era group estimated at 19.4% for men and 28.7% for women.
In 2021, about 17.2% of total he was working in Agriculture 21.3% in Industry 6.2%. in construction and 55.3% in The data showed that the service sector.
The share of is working in The industrial and construction sectors jumped 0.8 and 0.4 percentage points, respectively, while they fell 0.5 and 0.6 percentage points in Agriculture and services sectors.
