Lack of unemployment numbers in Kosovo, economy connoisseurs ASF

The Kosovo Statistics Agency has recently published the first final results of the Population Record (ReKos2024).

These results have included population statistics, ethnic, religious statistics, and many others.

However, statistics on our country's unemployment are not included in their report.

The MEP from the PDK ranks stresses that the escape of Kosovars is alarming, and according to him, the government is silenced and manipulated in numbers and statistics without dogs.

“although the government did not publish the latest record of unemployment, we reversion the data from 2023. The ASK gives the figures this end as follows: 746,264 unemployed persons or 64.7% of the workforce in Kosovo. These figures are alarming and potentially dangerous for Kosovo's emptying. Young people and the workforce in search of the best way of life, and in the inability of work in Kosovo, they are continuing to leave the country. While the government shuts down and manipulates numbers and statistics without the entity”, he told Blic newspaper.

Likewise, Shala says the AKS unemployment rate is misgivings.

So ultimately the AKS gives the employment rate exactly at 36.3%, but the unemployment rate misgivings 10.9% instead of publishing 64.7%, since even mathematically the draw is worth 100%=36,3% + 64,7%”, Shala said, among other things.

And the economist Arton Mujarrier calls it deliberate.

Kosovo Statistics Agency “has published a series of statistics from the population census. However, what stands out is not publishing data on the status of the unemployed in Kosovo. Since the AK works within the framework of the prime minister's office, the impression is given that this lack could be deliberate, as unemployment data would expose the statement of Prime Minister Kurti, who claimed unemployment in Kosovo is only 4%”, he responded to Blic newspaper.

Muharnier criticises ASC for avoiding this statistical publication.

Moreover, taking into account previous cases when institutions seized by power have changed reports about to adapting to government plants, it is not impossible that even in this case the AKS has avoided publishing statistics on unemployment to maintain the credibility of prime minister's statements that Kosovo does not suffer from unemployment”, he said.

Otherwise, he points out that if it is a release from this agency, such statistics are to be published today in such a way as to dispel suspicion.

“If this has just been a launch on the part of the AK, then it is vital that today the unemployment data is published, so that citizens can remove any doubts that this institution may have acted under the influence of political directives”, the economist said.

Recall that months ago, the Vetevendosje Movement through a post has published statistics on the population level according to the Balkan Barometer 2024.

The regional unemployment middle is 11%. The lowest unemployment rate results in Kosovo 4%, in Serbia by 7%, Montenegro 9%, northern Macedonia 13% and Bosnia 11%. In 1,000 questioned persons Kosovo had the highest level of employees with a 65% salary of respondents -- Serbia with 54%, Bosnia with 52, Northern Macedonia with 48% and Montenegro with 52%” -- it was said in their announcement.