Turkey’s unemployment rate dropped by 0.5 percentage points to 13.2% in 2020, the country’s statistical authority said on Monday.
Last year, the number of unemployed people was 4.08 million, down from 4.4 million in 2019, TurkStat figures showed.
Meanwhile, the number of unemployed people in Turkey — aged 15 and over — was 4.06 million last year, down from 4.4 million in 2019.
The number of employed people — aged 15 years old and over — was 26.8 million, thus the employment rate was 42.8% in 2020, down 2.9 percentage points.
The non-agricultural unemployment rate also dropped to 15.3% in 2019, falling by 0.7 percentage points.
The unemployment rate was 25.3% for the 15-24 age group — also known as youth unemployment.
