Official data showed that the unemployment rate in Palestine will rise in 2018.
According to a statement by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the employment rate reached about 31 percent of the work, compared to 28 percent in the previous year. The number rose from 377,000 in 2017 to 426,000 last year. The report, which was published on Tuesday and reviewed the workers´ reality in Palestine in 2018, on the occasion of International Labor Day, which falls on Wednesday, May 1, the unemployment rate was about 18% in the West Bank last year, compared with about 19 In 2017, while in the Gaza Strip it was around 52 per cent, compared to 44 per cent in 2017. According to the data, the number of workers in Palestine 954 thousand workers, 573 thousand in the West Bank and 254 thousand in the Gaza Strip and 127 thousand in the occupied home and settlements. The number of wage earners in the private sector was 350,000 and founded about 53 per cent of all wage earners in Palestine; 245,000 were from the West Bank and 105,000 from the Gaza Strip, compared with about 30 per cent in the public sector and about 17 per cent in the private sector. Occupied home and settlements.
