Today, Sunday, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics announced that the unemployment rate in Egypt decreased to 7.2% in the first quarter of 2022, a decrease of 0.2% in the same quarter of the previous year, which recorded 7.4%.
The agency stated in a statement that the labor force, which includes the employed and the unemployed, amounted to 29.895 million individuals, the size of the labor force during the first quarter of 2022, compared to 29.653 million individuals during the previous quarter, an increase of 0.8%.
The urban labor force amounted to 13.170 million people, while it reached 16.725 million people in the countryside.
At the gender level, the size of the labor force for males reached 24.670 million, while for females it reached 5.225 million.
The data indicated that the number of workers increased by 297 thousand during the current quarter compared to the previous quarter, and the unemployed decreased by 55 thousand, which led to an increase in the labor force by 242 thousand individuals.
The number of the unemployed was 2.145 million, representing 7.2% of the total labor force, distributed to 1.22 million males, 925 thousand women.
The unemployment rate among males reached 4.9% of the total male labor force in the current quarter, while it was 5.2% in the previous quarter, compared to 5.6% in the same quarter of the previous year.
The unemployment rate among females reached 17.7% of the total female labor force in the current quarter, while it was 17.8% in the previous quarter, compared to 15.9% in the same quarter of the previous year.
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