Number of unemployed down by 0.3% in April

PUTRAJAYA: The number of unemployed persons decreased in April by 0.3% to 586,900 persons compared to 588,700 last month, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM). As for unemployment rate in April, it stood at 3.5%, unchanged from March.

DOSM said the labour force in April recorded an addition of 0.2% to 16.84 million persons compared to 16.81 million in March.