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Measured over a longer period, the trend is still that unemployment is falling.

Despite the shouting for employees in all sectors, it is striking that unemployment is increasing slightly again. The number of unemployed stood at 2022 thousand in May 323. That is 3,3 percent of the working population. The unemployment rate is therefore slightly higher than in April 2022, when it was 3,2.

On average over the past three months, the number of unemployed fell by 4 thousand per month. More people started looking for work in May. The number of people aged 15 to 75 in work increased by an average of 40 thousand per month to 9,6 million in the past three months. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports this on the basis of new figures on the working population. At the end of May, UWV registered 165 thousand current unemployment benefits.

The slight increase in unemployment in May was mainly due to an increased influx from the non-working population. More than in previous months, people who did not belong to the labor force went to work or looked for work. As a result, both the number of employed and the number of unemployed increased.

Measured over a longer period (of three months), the trend is still that unemployment is falling. The number of employed persons continued to grow in the past two years. In the past year, the increase especially strong in young people† The further decline in the number of unemployed over the past three months is the result of underlying flows between the employed, unemployed and non-working population. The diagram below shows those flows.

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In the past year, the increase was particularly strong among young people.
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