Romania's jobless rate drops end-2014

The unemployment rate stood at 6.4% in December 2014, down 0.1 percentage points from the previous month and 0.6 percentage points from December 2013. The total number of unemployed people went down to 604,000, according to latest data from the National Statistics Institute INS. There were 617,000 jobless people in Romania in November and 649,000 in December 2013. The unemployment rate among men was slightly higher than in the case of women: 6.7% compared to 6%. For adults (aged 25-74) the unemployment rate was estimated at 5.1% for December 2014. This age category represents 73.7% of total unemployed. Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com