{"id":546416,"date":"2022-05-16T04:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T04:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2022\/05\/16\/unemployment-dips-to-7-2-1q-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-05-16T04:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T04:00:48","slug":"unemployment-dips-to-7-2-1q-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2022\/05\/16\/unemployment-dips-to-7-2-1q-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment dips to 7.2% 1Q 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"content-anchor\" id=\"tldr-story-04\"><\/a> <strong>Egypt\u2019s unemployment rate dipped to 7.2% in 1Q 2022<\/strong> from <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/15ca039b-985a-4ced-840e-eb179ca167b2\">7.4%<\/a> the previous quarter, according to the latest data by state statistics agency <a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2022\/5\/Unemployment-in-Egypt-1Q-2022.pdf\">Capmas (pdf)<\/a>. Unemployment was also down 0.2 percentage points compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The jobless rate has remained more or less flat since <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/10ee7f34-c8d1-4f15-891b-1c73d798e8e6\">the summer of 2020<\/a><\/strong>, with only mild fluctuations since <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/80fdf495-1342-4345-a5bd-6387379141bd\">spiking to a near-two-year high of 9.6%<\/a> in 2Q 2020 on the back of the lockdown and economic disruption that accompanied the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REMEMBER- The official unemployment rate only includes people who are looking for work. <\/strong>The labor force participation rate \u2014 which counts everyone aged 15-64 either in work or actively looking for work \u2014 fell 1.0 percentage points from the previous quarter to 42.8%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unemployment is still disproportionately affecting young people<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> The number of 15-29 year-olds out of work accounted for 63.0% of all jobless people, down from last quarter\u2019s 64.3%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The jobless rate among women remained flat from the previous quarter<\/strong> at 17.7%, down 0.1 percentage points from 4Q 2021. Unemployment among men continued to decline, falling to 4.9% from 5.2% the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fewer jobs in the private sector? <\/strong>Private sector employment <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/601312ea-2a96-485a-83db-cae4a0955962\">fell every month last quarter<\/a> and saw its <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/55e827e3-667f-4b12-a44d-b4c0b49a7efd\">sharpest drop in a year<\/a> in April, according to PMI data, as firms hold back from making new hires due to rising prices and falling demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt\u2019s unemployment rate dipped to 7.2% in 1Q 2022 from 7.4% the previous quarter, according to the latest data by state statistics agency Capmas (pdf). Unemployment was also down 0.2 percentage points compared with the same period last year. 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