Portugal has the smallest job vacancy rate in the EU
The data brought forward by Eurostat shows Portugal’s job vacancy rate has remained stable in the third quarter of the year. It is still, however, the smallest in the European Union.
The job vacancy rate in the Euro Area has reached a plateau at 1.6% on the third quarter – below the rate from the second quarter, but more than the homologous period of 2015. Portugal has the smallest percentage: 0.7%, according to Eurostat.
Between July and September, the European job vacancy rate increased 0.1 points homologous (to 1.6%), but decreased 0.1 points when compared with this year’s second quarter. In Portugal, it flattened out at 0.7%, compared to the previous quarter, but it increased when compared to the same period of 2015 (0.6%).
The job vacancy rate measures the percentage of paid job positions that have vacancies still available.
Considering all 28 Member-states from the European Union, the job vacancy rate was 1.8% in the third quarter of 2016, stable in the quarter-on-quarter variation and higher than the homologous period by 0.2 percentage points.
The smallest job vacancy rate was registered in Portugal and Spain (0,7% each), in Greece, Bulgaria and Poland (0.8% each).
According to the official statistical office of the EU, the highest rates are in Check Republic (3.1%), in Belgium (2.9%), the United Kingdom (2.5%) and in Germany (2.3%).
