In the second quarter of 2024, the employment rate for the population aged 20-64 years was 70%.
In the second quarter of 2024, the economically active population of Romania was 8417.1 thousand people, of whom 7,996 thousand were employed people and 421.1 thousand unemployed people.
The employment rate was higher for men, namely 72.4% versus 56.3% for women, respectively for residents in urban areas (70.8% against 56.8% in rural areas).
The employment rate for youths aged 15 to 24 was 18.7%.
Unemployment rate in the second quarter of 2024 was 5%, decreasing by 0.3 percentage points compared with the level recorded recorded in the first quarter of 2024 .
By sex, the gap between the two unemployment rates was 0.7 percentage points (5.3% for men versust 4.6% for women), while by residential areas it was 4.4 percentage points (7.6% for rural areas versus 3.2% for urban areas).
By age groups, the unemployment rate reached the highest level (22.7%) among young people aged 15 to 24.