Tunisia’s unemployment rate stabilized at 15.3% in the second quarter of 2017 to 625 thousand unemployed compared to 626 thousand in the first quarter.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday at the Government Palace in Kasbah, Director General of the National Institute of Statistics (INS) Hedi Saidi said a slight decline was registered in the unemployment rate among university graduates with 30.3% in the second quarter of 2017 against 31.3% in the first quarter.
He also pointed out that the unemployment rate for women is double that of men.
