Unemployment at 25%

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has announce the monthly unemplymnet statistics for January 2021. The figures show that 25% of people are unemployed, when excluding people on the Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) the number falls to 5.3%, up 0.2% from January 2020. On a monthly basis the PUP rate of unemployment rose from December's 19.4%.

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142,200 people were classified as unemployed in January 2021. Of them 63,400 were women and 142,200 were men.

15.7% of those aged 15 to 24 were classified as unemployed, a total of 18,500.