Colombia’s unemployment is down to single digits. In July, Colombia’s unemployment was 9.6%, a 1.4 percentage point decrease from 11% last year, says the National Administrative Department of Statistics DANE. They also reported a global participation rate increase of 1.3 percentage points to 64.8% from 2022’s 63.5%. The employment rate rose by 2.1 percentage points […]
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