Labour Force In Malaysia 2020



The number of labour force in this month.

Labour force in malaysia 2020. With the employed and unemployed persons situation in august 2020 the labour force during the month was 15 9 million persons july 2020. The labour force participation rate lfpr declined 0 1 percentage points from 68 7 per cent in february 2020 to 68 6 per cent in march 2020 after recorded the highest lfpr in january 2020 68 9. Labor force participation rate in malaysia averaged 66 90 percent from 2010 until 2020 reaching an all time high of 69 percent in january of 2020 and a record low of 62 30 percent in november of 2010.

Labour force participation rate decreased to 68 6. The unemployment rate in this quarter increased to 5 1 per cent as compared to 3 5 per cent in the first quarter of 2020 led by the sharp increase in the unemployment rate in may 2020. As the economic sectors continue to reopen august 2020 saw malaysia s labour force situation improved further.

The key statistics of labour force malaysia april 2020 released by the dosm today provide statistics on labour force employment and unemployment obtained from the labour force survey lfs. Mohd uzair said the unemployment rate spiked to 5 0 per cent as the unemployed persons went up 48 8 per cent as compared to a year ago to 778 800 persons. Mohd uzir said the labour force survey report malaysia second quarter 2020 also noted that the number of employed persons working less than 30 hours per week had decreased by 35 5 to 470 100 compared to 729 100 persons in may 2020.

Key statistics of labour force in malaysia march 2020. While elaborating on the labour force survey report malaysia second quarter 2020 uzir said. Labour force in malaysia increased 2 0 to nearly 15 3 million persons in 2018 female lfpr rose 0 5 percentage points to 55 2 per cent in 2018 social indicators.

Labor force for malaysia from department of statistics malaysia for the principal statistics of labour force release.