The average monthly number of officially registered unemployed persons in Armenia has decreased by 6.4 percent between January and June 2019, as compared to the same period last year. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan noted this on his Facebook page.

“In the same period of 2019, the mandatory payments made to the Insurance Foundation for [Military] Servicemen (the 1,000 drams) have exceeded the January-June 2018 indicator by 347.8 million drams, or by 9.6 percent,” he added. “The growth is a result of the increase in the number of hired workers.”