In the third quarter of 2024, the employment rate for the population aged 20-64 years was 69.3%.
In the third quarter of 2024, the economically active population of Romania was 8,211 thousand people, of whom 7,751 thousand were employed people and 460.4 thousand unemployed people.
The employment rate was higher for men, namely 71.4% versus 55.1% for women, respectively for residents in urban areas (68.9% against 57.6% in rural areas).
The employment rate for youths aged 15 to 24 was 19.6%.
Unemployment rate in the third quarter of 2024 was 5.6%, increasing by 0.6 percentage points compared with the level recorded in the second quarter of 2024 .
By sex, the gap between the two unemployment rates was 0.9 percentage points (6% for men versust 5.1% for women), while by residential areas it was 4.8 percentage points (8.2% for rural areas versus 3.4% for urban areas).
By age groups, the unemployment rate reached the highest level (26.9%) among young people aged 15 to 24.