Mexico's unemployment rate falls to 2.8% in November

ISTANBUL

Mexico's unemployment rate fell to 2.8% in November, according to a report by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) on Wednesday.

The figure is a decline of 0.5 percentage points from 3.3% in the same month last year.

The economically active population (EAP) was 60.6 million people in November, which was 2 million more than the same month of the previous year.

In November, a total of 58.9 million people, or 97.2%, were employed among the EAP. This was 2.4 million more compared to the same quarter of 2021, according to INEGI figures.