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Article: ALBANIA: ALBANIAN UNEMPLOYMENT ON THE RISE.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- May 11, 2000
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Officials from the Institute of Statistics told "Albanian Daily News" of 3 May that around 18.1 percent of the workforce--or 248,000 people- -were registered as unemployed in January 2000. This is 10,000 more than the previous year. The experts estimate that out of the 3.65 million Albanian citizens, about 600,000 people of working age have emigrated and are working abroad, while 765,051 are registered as students. Some 700,000 are living in rural areas, mostly earning their living in small scale private agriculture. Another 132,930 are working in the public administration or in other jobs financed through the state budget, while 78,070 are working in the remaining ...