Unemployment rate among females fell by 0.1 percentage points (down to 5.4 %) and among males by 0.3 percentage points (reaching 7.2 %).
The unemployment rate registered with the State Employment Agency (SEA) accounted for 5.9 %, and since May it has dropped by 0.2 percentage points. Compared to the June of the year before, both the actual and the registered unemployment rate has gone down by 1.5 percentage points.
In June 2022, in Latvia there were 59.7 thousand unemployed persons (25.5 thousand females and 34.2 thousand males), which is 1.5 thousand fewer than in May and 13.3 thousand fewer than in the corresponding period a year ago. Over the month the number of unemployed men reduced by 1.2 thousand and of unemployed women by 0.3 thousand.
