translated from Spanish: Mexico records 2.3 million people unemployed in June 2021

Mexico.-The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), released the National Survey of Occupation and Employment, new edition (ENOE), of the figures for the month of June, which reported 2.3 million people unemployed which meant a fall of 483,627 people with respect to the same period of 2020, month in which the largest decrease in unemployment was presented by the first effects of the pandemic of Covid-19.De according to the figures, as of June of this year, the Economically Active Population (EAP) reached 57.4 million people aged 15 years or older, which meant a participation rate of 58.5%.
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This figure represented a recovery of 6.5 million compared to June 2020, since in that period most people remained confined to their homes. Read more: New socavón appears in Puebla; swallows an LP gas pipe”55.1 million people (96%) were employed in the sixth month of 2021, a figure that increased by 7 million people in its annual comparison. Within it, the subuniverse of underemployed people, that is, who declared that they had the need and availability to work longer hours, represented 6.8 million (rate of 12.4% of the employed population) and meant a reduction of 2.8 million people compared to June of last year, “reported Inegi.El Inegi detailed that as for the Non-Economically Active Population that is dedicated to household activities , studies, is retired or has some personal impediment to carry out activities, stood at 40.7 million people, 41.5% of the population aged 15 years or older and 4.1 million less than in the same period of 2020.

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