The unemployment rate in Romania went up to 8.3% in February, after recording 8.1% in the first month of the year, according to the Romanian National Agency for Employment (ANOFM). The same time last year the unemployment rate read 5.3%.
The total number of jobless recorded with the county agencies for employment read 762,375 at the end of the previous month. From the total number of jobless at a national level, 468,863 are remunerated unemployed and 293,512 have no income.
Such a high number of jobless has only been recorded in Romania in March 2003, when 779,154 people did not have a place to work.
The highest rates of unemployment were recorded in Mehedinti (South-West) 14.6%, Vaslui (East) 14.2% and Alba (Central-West) 13%, while the lowest rates were in Bucuresti 2.4%, Ilfov (South-East) 2.7% and Timis (West) 4.6%.
