YEREVAN. – Zhoghovurd newspaper of the Republic of Armenia (RA) writes: RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan had stated yesterday during the government session that there are 613,062 jobs in the republic as of July 2020.

At the same time, Zhoghovurd daily was informed by open sources that the number of job seekers is 88,196 people as of July 2020, which is 5,376 people or 6.5% more than the indicator of the same period in 2019, and 5,387 people or 6.5% more than the indicator of the same period in 2018.

And the average monthly number of officially registered unemployed [in Armenia] is 60,126 people as of July 2020, which is 3,117 people or 4.9% less than the indicator of the same period of 2019, and 7,951 people or 11.7% and less than the indicator of the same period in 2018.

It turns out that there are 613,062 jobs in Armenia, whereas 88,196 people are looking for jobs, and 60,126 people are unemployed.