The unemployment rate in Colombia stood, for the fourth month of 2023, at 10.7 percent, as just reported by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane). Said rate is located at 3 percentage points less compared to the record of April 2022 when it reached 11.02 percent.
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According to the official statistical entity, the occupancy rate was 57.7 percent in the fourth month of the year and the entity’s board of directors, Piedad Urdinola, assured that these values are similar to those seen in Colombia before the pandemic.
The Danish data also show that until April in the country there were 22.7 million employed, while the unemployed or unemployed population was 2.73 millionwhile the population outside the labor force of 13.9 million.
For the 13 main cities and metropolitan areas, there was no variation, and it remained at 11.1 percent, the same indicator registered in the fourth month of last year.
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The director of Dane also reported that the gender gap in terms of unemployment stands at 5.6 percentage points, because while for men the indicator stood at 8.4 percent, in the case of women, for April , is at 13.9 percent.
This trend also prevails in the 13 main cities and metropolitan areas, with a gap of 37 points that responds to an unemployment indicator of 9.4 percent in the case of men and 13.1 percent for women.
