June 7, 2022
The employment rate in Czechia
The proportion of employed persons in the number of all persons aged 15–64 years reached 75.6% in April 2022. It increased by 2.5 percentage point (p.p.) compared to that in April 2021. The male employment rate was 82.3%; the female employment rate was 68.5%. The employment rate of persons aged 15–29 years was 45.3%, in the age group of 30–49 years it was 87.6%, and in the age group of 50–64 years it was 80.0%.
The general unemployment rate
The percentage of the unemployed in the labour force, that is in the total number of the employed and the unemployed (that means economically active persons), reached 2.4% in April 2022. It decreased by 1.0 percentage point, year-on-year. The male unemployment rate reached 1.9%; the female unemployment rate reached 3.0%.
The economic activity rate
The percentage of the economically active in the total number of persons aged 15–64 years reached 77.5%. It increased by 1.9 p. p. compared to that in April 2021. The male economic activity rate (83.9%) exceeded the female economic activity rate by 13.3 p. p.
“The economic activity rate of 77.5% is a historical maximum. Especially females contributed to that, since a fast growth has recovered in them after the coronavirus period. For the last 15 years, the female economic activity rate increased by 9 percentage points, while the male economic activity rate increased by less than 6 p. p.,” Dalibor Holý, Director of the Labour Market and Equal Opportunities Statistics Department of the Czech Statistical Office, explains the results.
Source: Czech Statistical Office
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