Unemployment Rate Creeping Up to 20%

The official registered unemployment rate in Croatia is nearing 20% after a rise in the number of registered unemployed last month…

The official registered unemployment rate in Croatia in November was 19.2%, up from 18.7% in October, according to data from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics. November was the third month in a row that the official registered unemployment rate had risen. Today there are 314,820 registered as unemployed in Croatia, around 2,500 more than were registered at the end of November. In November 2013 the registered unemployment rate was 21.1%.