The number of unemployment population increased to 2.6 million in the July-September quarter of 2024 compared with that of 2.4 million in the same period of 2023.
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics revealed the data on Sunday in its quarterly labour force update prepared on the basis of the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians.
A forum for setting standards for labour statistics, the 19th ICLS, considers unemployed people are those who did not work even one hour in the past one week for wage/remuneration or profits.
This was for the first time that the BBS applied 19th ICLS to calculate unemployed workforce.
In its update for the period marked by regime change amid mass uprising in July-August, the BBS also calculated labour force with聽 its previous method called the 13th ICLS that considers employed people are those who work for an hour in the past one week for wage/remuneration or profits or in the household production.
According to that, the number of unemployed stood at 3.64 million in the third quarter of the past year compared with that of 3.31 million in the same period of 2023.
Under the new method, the unemployment rate stood at 4.49 per cent in the July-September period of 2024 compared with that of 4.07 per cent in the same period of 2023.
