According to the Employment Service Statistics, at the end of July 2009 the number of unemployed jobseekers registered at Employment and Economic Development Offices totalled 290,100, up 69,600 on the previous year.

Compared with July a year ago, unemployment among men increased by 53,900 (51%) and among women by 15,700 (14%). In June, 27,800 of the unemployed were individually laid-off. Since June 2008, the number of people individually laid off has increased by 22,100.

At the end of July, unemployed jobseekers under 25 years of age numbered 43,500, representing an increase of 16,400 from July a year ago.

At the end of July, the number of long-term unemployed who had been unemployed without interruption for more than a year amounted to 41,100, down 3,300 on the previous year. Of those, persons unemployed without interruption for more than two years numbered 15,200, down 4,800 on the previous year.

The number of foreign citizens among unemployed jobseekers totalled 20,500, up 3,700 from July a year ago. Of these foreign unemployed jobseekers, EU/EEA citizens accounted for 4,100 at the end of July, up 1,200 from the year before.

The number of new vacancies reported to Employment and Economic Development Offices during July totalled 24,700, or 10,000 less than July in the previous year.