The registered unemployment rate in Slovakia stood at 5.19% in March, up by 0.16 percentage points (p.p.) month-on-month and by 0.14 p.p. year-on-year, indicate the latest data released by the Labour, Social Affairs and Family Centre. The number of jobseekers immediately able to start work stood at 142,993, rising by 3.65 percent y-o-y and almost 3 percent m-o-m.
At the end of March there were 84,674 available jobs, a decrease of 6,094 vacancies m-o-m. The highest number of jobs were on offer in the Bratislava region (24,251), making up 28.64 percent of the total. Meanwhile, the Kosice region had the lowest number of available jobs at 4,866, or 5.75 percent of the total.
The highest registered unemployment rate was in Prešov region (8.7%). The district with the highest unemployment rate was Rimavská Sobota (Banská Bystrica region) with 16.19%. Conversely, the lowest rate was in Trenčín district - 2.08%.
The unemployment rate Slovakia as calculated from the total number of jobseekers reached 6.21% in March, increasing by 0.08 percent in monthly terms.
