July 15 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria’s registered jobless rate fell by 0.1 percentage points month-on-month to 5.2% at the end of June, the government's Employment Agency said on Monday.
Compared to June 2018, Bulgaria’s jobless rate was 0.5 pp lower, the Employment Agency said in a statement.
A total of 169,659 people were registered as unemployed with labour offices at the end of June, of which 21,404 newly-registered during the month.
The number of people who found a job in the sixth month of the year totalled 19,898.
There were 19,623 registered job vacancies in June. The highest share of vacancies was registered in the manufacturing sector, 28.6% of the total.