Unemployment in Kosovo rises by 2.9 percent

The results of the Workers' Power Survey recently released by the Kosovo Statistics Agency (ASK) show that in the first nine months of this year unemployment has increased by 2.9 per cent compared to the unemployment rate registered by this agency last year.

The unemployment rate for the third quarter of this year is 30.2 percent. For the second quarter of this year, unemployment has been at a rate of 30.6 percent, while 30.5 percent in the first quarter.

The average for those nine months is 30.4 percent, or 2.9 percent higher than in 2016, when unemployment rates were 27.5 percent.

The most severe unemployment in the third quarter of this year is among women at 38 percent, compared with males with a score of 27.8 percent. While the most significant unemployment rate is among 15-24-year-old groups by 53.3 percent.