The unemployment rate of last year's last semester decreased to 5.5 pct, as compared with the previous semester when it was at 5.7 pct and the highest unemployment level, of 20.8 pct was registered among young people (15-24 years), according to data released on Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute (INS).
By gender, the gap between the two unemployment rates was one percentage point (5.9 pct in men against 4.9 pct in women) and by residency, of 1.5 percentage points (6.3 pct in rural areas, as compared to 4.8 pct in urban areas).
In the fourth quarter of 2016, the employment rate of the working age population (15-64 years) was 61.6 pct, down compared to the previous quarter by 1.5 percentage points. The occupancy rate was higher for men (70 pct against 53.1 pct in women) and people in urban areas (63.9 pct as compared to 58.8 pct in rural areas). The employment rate of young people (15-24 years) was 21.5 pct.
The employment rate of the population aged 20-64 years was 66.5 pct, at a 3.5 percentage point distance from the national target of 70 pct established in the Europe 2020 strategy context.
In last year's fourth quarter, Romania's active population was 8.879 million people, of which 8.394 million people were employed and 485,000 people were unemployed.
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