07.04.2015 19:04
YEREVAN, April 7. /ARKA/. Calculations made by using the International Labor Organization’s methodology show that 5.9% of economically active people in the Eurasian Economic Union space were unemployed in February 2015, while one month earlier this indicator stood at 5.6%, the Eurasian Economic Commission reports on its website.
According to the Eurasian Economic Commission’s latest figures, unemployment in Armenia was recorded at 17.1% (the 3rd Q 2014), in Kazakhstan at 5.0% (February 2015) and in Russia at 5.8% (February 2015).
For comparison – the average unemployment rate in the European Union was 9.8% in January 2015 and in the United States 5.5% in February 2015.
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