Youth unemployment on the rise! Instat: Students expect to graduate to work

The youth unemployment rate is on the rise! The latest report of the Institute of Statistics shows that in the first quarter of 2021, the youth unemployment rate is 23.3%, or 3.3% higher than for the same period of the previous year.

Young people aged 15-29 who declared that they are pupils / students or in training make up 70.1% of economically inactive young people. On the other hand, among young people aged 15-29 economically inactive, 9% are classified as discouraged unemployed.

Regarding the general unemployment rate, in the first quarter of 2021, the official unemployment rate in Albania, for the population aged 15 and over, is 11.9%. Compared to the first quarter of 2020, the official unemployment rate increased by 0.5 percentage points.

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