Unemployment rate
According to the National Household
Survey of the National Administrative Department of Statistics, the unemployment rate in
December for the seven main metropolitan areas was 19.7% in the year 2000, which
represents an decrease of 0.8 percentage point with respect to September of the same year.
In contrast with December 1999, the unemployment rate is 1.7 percentage points higher,
representing a growth in the number of unemployed people, by 172,000. Basically this
result is due to the participation rate increase which was 0.8 percentage point in
contrast with the figures registered in December of 1999, 63.8%, and by a 0.4 percentage
points fall of the occupation rate registered between December 1999 and December 2000. The
metropolitan areas that registered the highest unemployment rates were Pasto (21.3%),
Manizales (21.1%), and Cali (21.0%), while the lowest were Bucaramanga (16.8%) and
Barranquilla (15.2%).
UNEMPLOYMENT
Seven Cities and its Metropolitan Areas
|
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE %
| END
OF QUARTER |
1989 |
1990 |
1991 |
1992 |
1993 |
1994 |
| 1 |
11,0 |
10,1 |
10,7 |
10,8 |
9,7 |
10,2 |
| 2 |
10,3 |
10,9 |
10,7 |
11,2 |
9,1 |
9,8 |
| 3 |
9,0 |
10,2 |
9,8 |
9,1 |
7,8 |
7,6 |
| 4 |
9,4 |
10,6 |
9,4 |
9,8 |
7,8 |
8,0 |
| END OF QUARTER |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
| 1 |
8,1 |
10,2 |
12,3 |
14,4 |
19,5 |
20,3 |
| 2 |
9,0 |
11,4 |
13,4 |
15,9 |
19,9 |
20,4 |
| 3 |
8,7 |
11,9 |
12,1 |
15,0 |
20,1 |
20,5 |
| 4 |
9,5 |
11,3 |
12,0 |
15,6 |
18,0 |
19,7 p |
|
p:
Provisional.
Source: National Administrative Department of statistics (DANE). |
