Bosnia's June Jobless Rate Rises to Prelim 41.6% from Revised 41.4% in May

The number of unemployed in the Balkan state was 492,718 in June versus 490,765 in May, the Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina said in a statement posted on its website.

Bosnia’s unemployment rate in June 2008 was 38.7%, 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.