Unemployment in Turkey

[2] Though unemployment is a general problem for the whole world, the degree of unemployment in Turkey is especially high in respect to the other countries in the region at the same economic level.

On 10 September 2020, a data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) reported that the unemployment rate in Turkey rose to 13.4%.

In July 2019, the statistics went up by 0.4% and the number of unemployed person of age 15 and over, slipped by 152,000 year-on-year.

Meanwhile, the same figures flipped in 2020, as the number of unemployed people rose to 4.1 million by the end of June 2020.

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute, the employment rate reached 42.4%, which was observed to be descending significantly by 4% on an annual basis.