Casa
May 14th, 2006, 12:47 PM
For the first time in 35 years, the rate of unemployment gets under the threshold of 10%, said Wednesday the High Commissariat for Planning (HCP).
In a communiqué on the job market situation in Morocco, the ministry said that the rate of unemployment reached 9.8% in the first quarter of the year 2006, compared to 11.3% in the same period last year.
“The rate of unemployment has shrunk to 9.8% for the first time since the general census of 1971,” reads the communiqué.
In the same period under study, in urban areas unemployment decreased to 15.4% and in the rural ones to 3.9%, whereas it was 19.2% and 3.3%, respectively, last year.
Counting about 11,128,000 people, 26.1% of whom are women, the active Moroccan population is divided almost equally between urban and rural areas, 5,686,000 and 5,442,000 respectively.
The HCP underlined that the rate of unemployed active women stands at 25.2%, 5.1 of them non-diploma holders and 18.6 diploma holders.
As for age brackets, people of 15-24 and 25-34 see the highest rate of unemployment, with 15.3% and 14.2% respectively, compared to only 6.1% and 2.6% for people of 35-44 and 45 and over.
The ministry also stated that 506,000 of remunerated jobs were created during the first quarter of the year, while the number of non-remunerated jobs fell to 428,000, 94% of them located in the rural zones.
Among the sectors that have contributed to the creation of jobs are construction, public works, agriculture, forests, fisheries, and services.
In a communiqué on the job market situation in Morocco, the ministry said that the rate of unemployment reached 9.8% in the first quarter of the year 2006, compared to 11.3% in the same period last year.
“The rate of unemployment has shrunk to 9.8% for the first time since the general census of 1971,” reads the communiqué.
In the same period under study, in urban areas unemployment decreased to 15.4% and in the rural ones to 3.9%, whereas it was 19.2% and 3.3%, respectively, last year.
Counting about 11,128,000 people, 26.1% of whom are women, the active Moroccan population is divided almost equally between urban and rural areas, 5,686,000 and 5,442,000 respectively.
The HCP underlined that the rate of unemployed active women stands at 25.2%, 5.1 of them non-diploma holders and 18.6 diploma holders.
As for age brackets, people of 15-24 and 25-34 see the highest rate of unemployment, with 15.3% and 14.2% respectively, compared to only 6.1% and 2.6% for people of 35-44 and 45 and over.
The ministry also stated that 506,000 of remunerated jobs were created during the first quarter of the year, while the number of non-remunerated jobs fell to 428,000, 94% of them located in the rural zones.
Among the sectors that have contributed to the creation of jobs are construction, public works, agriculture, forests, fisheries, and services.