RABAT, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Morocco's unemployment rate rose to 12.4 percent in the second quarter of 2023, up from 11.2 percent in the same period last year, the High Commission for Planning (HCP), the kingdom's national statistics office, said on Thursday.
The number of unemployed people hit 1,543,000 in the second quarter of 2023, up from 1,387,000 in the second quarter of 2022, the HCP said in a press release.
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