According to the figures of the Palestinian Statistics Center, the unemployment rate among the labor force was 28 percent in the previous year, reaching 31 percent last year.
According to the Palestine Information Center, according to the report of the Statistics Center, the number of unemployed in 2017, which was 377 thousand last year, 426 thousand rose was expressed.
The Palestinian Statistics Center, which published a report today on the situation of workers in Palestine before May 1 Labor Day, reported that the unemployment rate in the West Coast reached 18 percent in 2018.
According to the report, the unemployment rate in the West Coast was 17 percent in 2017, and the unemployment rate in the Gaza Strip increased from 44 percent in 2017 to 52 percent in 2018.
According to the statistics, the number of workers in Palestine is 954 thousand, 573 thousand in the West Coast, 254 thousand in the Gaza Strip and 1948 occupied territories and the Jewish settlements of 127 thousand workers were specified.
In the private sector, the number of paid employees is around 350 thousand and this figure constitutes 53 percent of the total number of wages in Palestine, 245 of them are in the West Coast and 105 of them are in the Gaza Strip. 17 of the occupied territories and Jewish settlements in 1948 were reported to work.