Italy's unemployment rate was 11.5%
in May, according to provisional data released by Istat on
Friday.
This compares to 11.6% in April, after the national
statistics agency revised the figure for the previous month.
Istat says that the proportion of people in employment
rose to 57.1%, an increase of 0.1 of a percentage point.
It said that the youth unemployment rate was steady at
36.9% of the 15-to-24-year-olds who are actively on the labour
market.
Istat said there were 299,000 more people in work in May
that in the same month last year and 175,000 fewer people on the
dole.
The number of people who are 'inactive' as they are not
considered to be on the labour market dropped by 2.2%, it said.
It said that. in total, 22.677 million people were
employed, 2.95 million were unemployed in May.
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