Number of employed people rises in June

The number of employed people was 121,000 higher in June 2021 than one year ago, according to Statistics Finland.

There were 7,000 more unemployed than in June 2020. The trend of the employment rate was 72.4 per cent and the trend of the unemployment rate was 7.9 per cent.

In June 2021, the number of employed persons was 2,677,000 (margin of error ±33,000), which was 121,000 more than a year earlier. There were 45,000 more employed men and 76,000 more employed women than in June 2020.

According to Statistics Finland, there were 220,000 (margin of error ±24,000) unemployed in June 2021, i.e. 7,000 more than one year earlier. The number of unemployed men was 125,000 and that of women 95,000.

The unemployment rate , or the proportion of the unemployed among the labour force, was 7.6 per cent in June, having been 7.7 per cent in the year before.

From last year’s June, men’s unemployment rate rose by 0.8 percentage points to 8.3 per cent and women’s unemployment rate declined by 1.1 percentage points to 6.9 per cent.