A year ago, the unemployment rate – or jobseeker rate: the ratio of the number of unemployed unemployed in Flanders to the Flemish working population – was 5.9 percent.
The number of unemployed job seekers year-on-year decreased most sharply in the category of people who have been unemployed for 1 to 2 years (-22 percent), among young job seekers (up to 25 years, -9 percent) and among the low- and medium-skilled (each almost -9 percent).
Compared to May of this year, there were about 5,100 fewer unemployed job seekers in June: 18,879 citizens were added as unemployed people, but 24,015 unemployed people flowed out (of whom 62 percent were in work), according to the VDAB.