Romania Unemployment Rate at 5.5% in December

01.31.2017 By Oana Gavrila

Romania's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at 5.5% in December, from 5.7% in November, the country's statistics board said Tuesday.

An estimated 507,000 people were unemployed in Romania in December, compared with 521,000 people in November and with 616,000 people who were jobless in December 2015, the data showed.

The jobless rate among women stood at 4.5% in December, while among men the rate was 6.3%.