Unemployment

rose by

70,900

people

between January and March, which is almost 2.3% more than in the previous quarter, while employment fell by

100,200 jobs

(-0.5%), its smallest decrease in a first quarter since 2019, when 93,400 jobs were destroyed.

At the end of March, the total number of unemployed stood at 3,174,700 people and that of employed people, at

20,084,700 people

, the National Institute of Statistics (INE) reported this Thursday.

The increase in unemployment in the first quarter of this year contrasts with the fall of

65,800 unemployed

registered in the same period of 2021. In the first three months of 2020, when the

Covid

pandemic appeared , unemployment increased by 121,000 people, above what it has done in the first quarter of this year.

The

unemployment rate

rose three tenths in the first quarter, to 13.65%, while the activity rate fell by just over one tenth, to 58.5%, after the number of active people fell by 29,400 between January and March (-0.1%).

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