Number of unemployed people up 22% in April from last year
12,400 people without work as unemployment rate rises to 3.6 per cent
The number of unemployed people in April was up 22.1% compared to April 2025, the National Statistics Office said on Monday.
The national unemployment rate stood at 3.6% that month, an increase of 0.6 percentage points when compared to 12 months prior.
In a news release published on Monday, the National Statistics Office said that during April 2026, the number of unemployed persons stood at 12,400.
That was 1.4 per cent up when compared to March 2026, and an increase of 22.1 per cent when compared to April 2025, when there were 10,152 people registered as unemployed.
Unemployment data issued by the NSO on Monday.Most of those unemployed are aged 25 to 74 (9,690 people, or 78.1 per cent of the total) with youths aged 15 to 24 accounting for the remaining 2,710 people (21.9 per cent).
In April 2026, the unemployment rate for men stood at 3.6 per cent, remaining stable compared with March 2026. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate for women stood at 3.5 per cent, showing an increase of 0.1 percentage points compared with March 2026.
The unemployment rate for persons aged 15 to 24 years (youth unemployment rate) reached 9.1 per cent while the rate for those aged 25 to 74 years stood at 3.0 per cent.