Unemployment rate in Lithuania stood at 13.8% in Q3

Statistics Lithuania informs that, according to the Labour Force Survey data, the number of the unemployed in III quarter 2009 made 228.1 thousand, which is by just 5 thousand more than in II quarter 2009, and the growth in the unemployment rate slowed down. In III quarter 2009, the unemployment rate stood at 13.8%, which is by 0.2 percentage points more than in II quarter 2009. Over a year (III quarter 2009, against III quarter 2008), the unemployment rate grew 2.3 times. ... Read more...