At the same time, the employment rate, i.e. the employed in relation to the population, rose to 69.0 percent – up from 68.9 percent a year earlier.
"Among young people aged 15–24, the number of unemployed amounted to 157,000 and the unemployment rate was 22.8 percent. Compared to adjacent months, it is a decrease in both the number and the proportion of unemployed young people", writes SCB.
