Unemployment rate slightly down in Kazakhstan
By Aynur Jafarova
The unemployment rate in Kazakhstan was 5.3 percent in 2012, 0.1 percent less than in 2011, Trend news agency reported on Thursday with reference to a report of the Kazakh Agency of Statistics.
According to the statistics agency, the number of the unemployed in Kazakhstan amounted to 474,800 in 2012.
The percentage of unemployed men totaled 39.7 percent while this figure was 60.3 percent for unemployed women.
According to the agency, youth unemployment rate in the 15-24 age group was at 3.9 percent compared to 4.6 percent in 2011, and that in the 15-28 age group was 5.4 percent versus 6.3 percent in 2011.
According to the report, the employment offices of the Kazakh Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population registered 34,600 jobless people by late 2012.
The proportion of the registered unemployed was 0.4 percent of the economically active population. The figure remained unchanged from 2011.
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