RIGA, April 12 (LETA) - At the end of March this year, the registered unemployment rate in Latvia reached 8.2 percent of the economically active population, according to the State Employment Agency.

At the end of March 2021, there were 74,232 people registered with the State Employment Agency as jobless, which is 262 people less than a month ago when the jobless register included 74,494 people.

At the end of March, the lowest registered unemployment rate was still in Riga region - 6.2 percent, which is 0.1 percentage point more than a month earlier, but the highest registered unemployment rate remained in Latgale region - 16.5 percent, the same a in the previous month.

The unemployment rate registered in Zemgale remained unchanged from March, reaching 8 percent of the economically active population at the end of the month, the unemployment rate registered in Vidzeme decreased by 0.2 percentage points, reaching 8.1 percent at the end of the month, and the unemployment rate registered in Kurzeme decreased by 0.3 percentage points, accounting for 8.7 percent of the economically active population at the end of the month.

In Riga, registered unemployment rose 0.2 percentage points to 6.1 percent of the capital city's working-age population.

At the end of 2020, the registered unemployment rate in Latvia was 7.7 percent of the economically active population. Last year, the highest unemployment rate in Latvia was 8.6 percent, recorded at the end of June and July.