the Number of unemployed persons aged 15 years and older increased by 732 thousand persons or 20.6% (in April 2019 the number of unemployed was 3 million 554 thousand).
As noted in the Ministry of labor, the unemployment rate was in April 2020, 5.8% of the labour force has increased by 1.1 percentage points compared to April last year. The lowest unemployment rates were recorded in the Central Federal district (3.2% of the workforce), the highest – in the North Caucasian Federal district (12,2%).
least of all the unemployed in St. Petersburg (1.7% of workforce), Moscow (1.8%), the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous district (1.8%), the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous district (2.5 percent), Moscow oblast (3.0%), the Republic (3,4%), Samara region (3,4%), Bryansk oblast (3.5 percent), Khabarovsk Krai (3,5%), Kamchatka territory (3.6 per cent).
The high level of unemployment prevailing in the Republic of Ingushetia (27.4% of the workforce), the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (15,3%), the Republic of Dagestan (15,1%), Karachay-Cherkess Republic (14.7 per cent), Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (13.2%), and the Altai Republic (12,4%), the Republic of Tuva (12,3%), the Republic of Buryatia (10,4%), Zabaykalsky Krai (9,5%).
By the end of may 2020, the number of officially registered unemployed amounted to 2 143,48 thousand. Compared to April 2020 the number of unemployed registered in the employment service increased by 832,46 thousand 63.5% (in April 2020 for registration was 1 311,02 thousand people).
In 39 regions the registered unemployment rate at the end of may 2020, according to the operative data, was below the national average. Least of all the unemployed in may was in Sakhalin region (0.73% of the workforce), Lipetsk region (1,36%), Tambov region (1,47%), Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous district (1,57%), Sevastopol (1,57%), Belgorod region (1,62%), Kaluga region (1.79 per cent), the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous district (1,80%), Kamchatka Krai (1,83%), Tula region (1,87%).
the highest level of registered unemployment was observed in the Republic of Tuva (of 12.91%), the Republic of Ingushetia (of 9.84%), the Republic of Altai (6,41%), Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (6,14%), the Republic of Buryatia (5,17%), the Republic of Karelia (4,49%), Vologda region (4,41%), the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (4,20%), Kaliningrad region (3,86%).
the Coefficient of tension (the number of unemployed citizens consisting on the registration account in the state employment agencies per 100 vacancies declared by employers to the employment services) in Russia in General increased from 52 per 100 vacancies at the end of may 2019 to 184 people per 100 vacancies at the end of may 2020.
as of 16 June 2020 the number of officially registered unemployed amounted to 2 493,8 thousand people, and if��the EU ETS vacancies declared by employers to the employment service, amounted to 1 429,5 thousand units.
