- The real number of unemployed is not 3.1 million but 8.7 million!
- According to TurkStat, the narrowly defined unemployment rate dropped to 9 percent!
- The real unemployment rate is 22.7 percent!
- The point difference between narrow- and broad-defined unemployment is 13.7!
- Broad-defined female unemployment has exceeded 30 percent!
- The real number of unemployed is not 3.1 million, but 8.7 million!
- According to TurkStat, narrow-defined unemployment rate dropped to 9 percent!
- The real unemployment rate is 22.7 percent!
- The point difference between narrow and broad unemployment is 13.7 percent!
- Broad-defined female unemployment has exceeded 30 percent!
TurkStat’s November 2023 Household Labor Force Survey (HLFS) results were published on January 10, 2024. The seasonally adjusted narrow-defined unemployment rate was 9 percent, while the seasonally adjusted broad-defined unemployment rate (idle labor force) was 22.7 percent. According to TurkStat, the number of narrow-defined unemployed (seasonally adjusted) persons aged 15 and above in Turkey was 3 million 116 thousand in November 2023.
According to the calculation made by DISK-AR based on TURKSTAT data, the number of seasonally adjusted broad-defined unemployed people was 8 million 671 thousand in November 2023. According to TurkStat, narrow-defined unemployment, which was 13.3 percent in November 2019 before the pandemic, was 9 percent in November 2023. However, in the same years, broad-defined unemployment rose from 18.4 percent to 22.7 percent. In the last 1 year, the number of broad-defined unemployed increased by 795 thousand, from 7.8 million to 8.6 million. After the Covid-19 pandemic, the broad-defined unemployment rate increased by 4.3 points and the number of broad-defined unemployed increased by 2 million 285 thousand people.
According to İŞKUR’s November 2023 data, the number of people who could receive unemployment benefit in this month is around 370 thousand. Thus, in November 2023, only 11.9 percent of the officially unemployed were able to receive unemployment benefits. More than 2.7 million unemployed people were deprived of unemployment benefit. This means that 88 percent of the unemployed did not receive unemployment benefit.
Source: https://disk.org.tr/2024/01/disk-ar-gercek-issiz-sayisi-87-milyon/