TÜİK has released figures for unemployment rates for December 2019.

The number of unemployed persons aged 15 years old and over increased by 92 thousand to 4 million 394 thousand persons in the period of December 2019 in Turkey compared with the same period of the previous year.

The unemployment rate set at 13.7% with 0.2 percentage point increase. Non-agricultural unemployment rate occurred as 15.8% with 0.2 percentage point increase.

Employment rate reached 44.7%

The number of employed persons increased by 3 thousand to 27 million 658 thousand persons in the period of December 2019 compared with the same period of the previous year. The employment rate occurred as 44.7% with 0.7 percentage point decrease.

While the number of agricultural employment decreased by 225 thousand persons, construction decreased by 119 thousand persons while industry increased by 225 thousand persons and services increased by 122 thousand persons. According to the distribution of employment by sector; 16.5% was employed in agriculture, 20.6% was employed in industry, 5.4% was employed in construction and 57.5% was employed in services.