SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's unemployment rate eased to 4.6% in April from 4.8% in the previous month as employers in the processing industry, retail and hospitality sector opened new jobs, data from the state employment agency showed on Monday.
The jobless rate was 6.1% in April 2021, when the Balkan country's economy was hit by restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus.
There were about 5,316 less unemployed people in the country of 7 million than in April. When compared with the year before, there were 49,870 fewer unemployed Bulgarians. More than 15,144 people started work in April.
UNEMPLOYMENT APRIL 2022 MARCH 2022 APRIL 2021
RATE
Monthly total 150,547 155,863 200,417
Pct of workforce 4.6 4.8 6.1