Bosnia's July Jobless Rate Rises to 41.8% from 41.6% in June

The number of unemployed in the Balkan state was 497,034 in July versus 492,718 in June, the Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina said in a statement posted on its website.

Bosnia’s unemployment rate in July 2008 was 40.9%, the statistics office said at the time.

Bosnia, a country of some 4.0 million people, was split into two autonomous parts - the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Serb Republic, by the 1992-95 civil war.