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Unemployment
Istanbul, March 15, 2017 (dpa/NAN) Turkey’s unemployment rate hit 12.7 per cent in December, rising by 1.9 per cent points year-on-year, while youth unemployment stood at 24 per cent, the state agency, Turkstat said on Wednesday.
In November, the jobless rate was at 12.1 per cent and was already the highest in seven years.
The number of age 15-24 year olds who were neither employed nor in education was at 24.8 per cent.
The labour force participation rate came in at 51.6 per cent. (dpa/NAN)
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Edited by Celine-Damilola Oyewole/Abdullahi Yusuf