KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 ― The number of unemployed in the country has increased to 778,200 people as of July, according to data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia released today.
“The unemployment rate for the month remained at 4.8 per cent as compared to the previous month while year-on-year, declined by 0.1 percentage points. He added that the number of employed people dipped 0.02 per cent in July when compared to June to 15.29 million.The DoSM data also showed that the number of people deemed outside of the labour force also went up by 1 per cent in July compared to the previous month.
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