SKOPJE (Macedonia), December 23 (SeeNews) – Macedonia's unemployment rate fell to 31.7% in the third quarter from 33.0% a year earlier, the Statistics Office said on Wednesday.
"In the third quarter, the labour force in Macedonia totalled 940,661 people, of which 642,541 or 68.3%, were employed, while 298,120, or 31.7%, were unemployed," the Statistics Office said in a statement on its website.
Macedonia's unemployment rate was 31.9% in the second quarter, compared to 33.8% a year earlier.