Türkiye's unemployment rate up to 11.3% in April

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye's unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percentage point to 11.3% month-on-month in April, the country's statistical authority said on Friday.

The number of unemployed people – aged 15 years old and over – increased by 65,000 to almost 3.8 million in the month, compared to the previous month, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said.

The unemployment rate was 9.7% for men and 14.5% for women, it added.

The youth unemployment rate in the 15-24 age group was 20% with a 0.8 percentage point decrease compared to the previous month.

TurkStat also said the number of employed people was 30.4 million with a rise of 408,000, and the employment rate stood at 47.1% with a 0.6 percentage point increase.

The labor force rate was 53.1% with 0.7 percentage point increase.