Unemployment rate rises to 6.1% in June
The unemployment rate rose to 6.1% in June, up 0.1 percentage points from May, but down 0.6 percentage points from a year earlier.
Portugal’s unemployment rate was 6.1% in June, 0.1 percentage points higher than in May, but lower than the 6.7% rate in June 2021, according to provisional data released on Friday by the country’s national statistics institute (INE).
According to the INE’s ‘Monthly Employment and Unemployment Estimates’, in June “the unemployment rate stood at 6.1%, higher than the previous month by 0.1 percentage points and 0.2 percentage points higher than three months earlier, but 0.6 percentage points lower than a year earlier.”
These statistics also revised downwards the unemployment rate for May from a provisional figure of 6.1% to 6.0%, “a figure that is 0.1 percentage points higher than the previous month and 0.2 percentage points higher than three months earlier, but 1.0 percentage point lower than a year earlier.”
