Job vacancy rate in Q4 second-lowest in EU, at 0.7%, unchanged from Q3
In the last three months of 2020, the job vacancy rate rose in both the Eurozone and the EU, compared to the previous quarter. In Portugal, it remained stable at 0.7%.
Portugal in the fourth quarter of 2020 had the second-lowest job vacancy rate in the European Union, at 0.7%, unchanged from the previous quarter, while the euro-zone rate rose slightly to 1.9% and that for the EU as a whole to 1.8%, according to the bloc’s statistical office, Eurostat.
In Portugal, the job vacancy rate in the third quarter of 2020 was 0.7%, while in the fourth quarter of 2019 it had been 0.9%.
In both the euro-zone and the EU as a whole the third-quarter rate was 1.7%, while in the fourth quarter of 2019 it had been 2.2%.
According to Eurostat, the countries with the highest job vacancy rates in the fourth quarter of 2020 were the Czech Republic (5.0%), Germany (3.0%) and Belgium (2.9%), while the lowest rates were recorded in Greece (0.5%) and Portugal, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Spain, Poland and Romania (all with 0.7%).
