Compared to the previous month, it was 1.5%. On Wednesday, April 19, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.

According to the ministry, last month in the State Employment Service, 406.8 thousand unemployed were registered, whereas 439.3 thousand people were registered there a month ago. Thus, the number of unemployed decreased by 32.5 thousand people. At the same time from the number of registered 332.8 thousand received unemployment benefits.

The department also noted that the average amount of the unemployment benefit in March of this year was 2 thousand 28 hryvnia, which is 105 hryvnia more than in February.

Among the urban population, 222,900 unemployed were registered, and 183,900 unemployed among the rural population, "the State Statistics Committee said, adding 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, the unemployment rate in Ukraine in February 2017 was 1.7%. 439.3 thousand unemployed were registered in the State Employment Service.