Saudi Arabia unemployment rate at 12.2%

  • Saudi Arabia: Sunday, January 27 - 2013 at 05:10

According to a study by the Saudi Central Department of Statistics and Information, the unemployment rate in the country stood last year at 12.2%, with more than 588,000 jobless Saudis out of the more than 4,800,000 citizens in the working age group, Arab News has reported. "Of the total Saudi citizens in the working age group, 3,900,000 are men. They represent 80.6% of the labour force," said the report. The total number of employed Saudis was around 4,200,000 representing 87.8% of the Saudi labour force, it said.

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