Social Security unemployment benefits in total of active beneficiaries (%)

Indicator

2020

5.0

1978

1.9

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Years	Unemployment payments
Years	Total	Social unemployment benefit	Unemployment benefit
1978	1.9	1.9	-
1979	1.6	1.6	-
1980	1.6	1.6	-
1981	1.6	1.6	-
1982	1.5	1.5	-
1983	1.6	1.6	-
1984	1.8	1.8	-
1985	┴2.0	┴(R)1.6	┴(R)0.4
1986	2.0	(R)1.3	(R)0.7
1987	1.8	1.1	0.8
1988	1.5	0.9	0.6
1989	1.5	0.8	0.7
1990	1.7	0.7	1.0
1991	2.4	0.9	1.5
1992	3.3	1.2	2.1
1993	4.5	1.6	2.9
1994	4.5	1.7	2.8
1995	4.3	1.9	2.5
1996	4.5	2.1	2.4
1997	4.0	1.8	2.2
1998	4.1	1.9	2.2
1999	4.0	1.7	2.3
2000	3.7	1.5	2.3
2001	3.9	1.5	2.4
2002	4.4	1.6	2.8
2003	6.0	1.7	4.2
2004	┴6.5	┴1.7	┴4.9
2005	6.7	1.6	5.1
2006	6.5	1.6	4.9
2007	5.5	1.7	3.9
2008	(R)5.7	(R)1.8	(R)4.0
2009	(R)8.0	(R)2.6	(R)5.4
2010	(R)6.5	(R)1.4	(R)5.1
2011	(R)7.1	(R)1.3	(R)5.9
2012	(R)9.3	(R)1.6	(R)7.7
2013	(R)9.0	(R)1.6	(R)7.4
2014	(R)7.3	(R)1.4	(R)5.9
2015	(R)6.1	(R)1.3	(R)4.8
2016	(R)5.2	(R)1.1	(R)4.1
2017	(R)4.1	(R)0.7	(R)3.4
2018	(R)3.8	(R)0.6	(R)3.2
2019	(R)3.5	(R)0.6	(R)3.0
2020	5.0	0.8	4.3

Sources/Entities: IGFSS/MTSSS (until 1997) | II/MTSSS (as from 1998), IGFSS/MTSSS (until 1998) | II/MTSSS (as from 1999), PORDATA
Last updated: 2021-07-29

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