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Unemployment Rate in Japan Decreases to 3.1%, First Time Since 1994

© AFP 2023 / Yoshikazu TSUNO Pedestrians are reflected in the window of a securities company shows the numbers of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on March 26, 2015
Pedestrians are reflected in the window of a securities company shows the numbers of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on March 26, 2015 - Sputnik International
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The unemployment rate in Japan decreased to 3.1 percent in 2016 for the first time in more than twenty years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said on Tuesday.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the ministry's statement, the number of unemployed people in Japan amounts to 2,08 million people, while 3.3 percent out of them are men and 2.8 are women.

In 2016, 64,4 million people in Japan were recorded employed, what is 640,000 more than the year before, the statement specified.

The non-working part of the population, including persons over the age of 65, decreased to 44,2 million people.

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