Moldova Unemployment Rate

Last Release

Dec 31, 2023

Actual

4.9

Units In

5.5

Frequency

Quarterly

Next Release

Mar 05, 2025

Time to Release

2 Months 28 Days 12 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
13 Mar 2006	2.2 Sep 2018	5.64 %	2000-2023	National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova

In Moldova, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.

Latest Updates

The unemployment rate in Moldova decreased to 3.6 percent in the third quarter of 2020 from 4.1 percent in the respective quarter of the previous year, marking the lowest reading since Q3 2022. Over the same quarter in the previous year, the number of unemployed fell by 6,000 to 33,200. By genders, the unemployment rate for men was 3.2 percent and for women it was 4.1 percent. The youth unemployment rate, measuring jobseekers between 15 and 24 years was 8 percent.