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Mongolia’s unemployment rate drops 4.6 pct in first 3 quarters
ULAN BATOR, Oct.13, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – The unemployment rate in Mongolia
decreased by 4.6 percent in the first three quarters of this year, compared
with the same period last year, the country’s National Statistical Office
(NSO) said Friday.
But the figure was 4.9 percentage points higher month-on-month.
A total of 24,200 people were recorded to be unemployed, more than half of
whom were female. And the highest unemployment rate went to people aged 15-
24.
The report showed that 30.2 percent of the unemployed had university
degrees.
During the first three quarters of this year, some 14,900 out of the total
registered unemployed people got a new job through intermediaries.
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