Compared to the previous month, the increase was 1.2%. As reported on Tuesday, December 19, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, in November the State Employment Service registered 309 thousand unemployed, while in the previous month 281,9 thousand were registered. Thus, the number of unemployed increased by 27.1 thousand people.

At the same time, 240.1 thousand of the registered unemployed received unemployment benefits. The department also said that the average amount of unemployment benefit per employee in November was 2174 hryvnia, which is 37 hryvnia more than in October.

At the same time, according to Gosstat, 179,000 unemployed are registered among the urban population, and among rural residents - 130,000. At the same time among women unemployed 177.

6 thousand people, and among men - 131.4 thousand.

The statistical department was also reminded that the data are given without taking into account the temporarily occupied territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol and part of the zone of the antiterrorist operation.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in mid-November, Deputy Prime Minister Pavel Rozenko said that for the year the number of unemployed in Ukraine decreased by 60 thousand.