The country’s unemployment rate fell to a low of 7.1 per cent for October 2021, according to the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) Labour Force Survey for the month.
This is 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous 7.2 per cent pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) out-turn recorded in October 2019.
STATIN’s Director General, Carol Coy, said the October 2021 figure also represents a 3.7 percentage-point decline, relative to the corresponding period last year.
She was speaking during STATIN’s digital quarterly media briefing on yesterday.
