ANOFM: Jobless Rate Falls To 5.4% In April

05.25.2011 By Andrei Cîrchelan

Romania’s unemployment rate fell to 5.41% in April, from 5.92% a month earlier, the country’s employment agency ANOFM said Wednesday.

A year earlier, Romania's jobless rate was 8.07%.

The total number of unemployed people reached 493,438 in April, down from 539,666 people in the previous month, ANOFM said.

End-April, the number of jobless claims was 200,633, from 231,721 claims a month earlier.