Turkey's unemployment rate dropped 2.9 points to 12 percent in April, 2010 when compared to April, 2009.

Turkey's statistics authority, TurkStat, stated on Thursday that the number of unemployed people dropped 547,000 to 3,071,000 in April period (March-April-May) of 2010.

The unemployment rate had been 14.9 percent in April, 2009.
Labor force figures of Turkey as of April are as follows;

APRIL 2009 APRIL 2010
Non-institutional population (thousand) 70,368 71,173
Population 15-years-old & older (thousand) 51,507 52,360
Labor Force (thousand) 24,316 25,572
Employed (thousand) 20,698 22,501
Unemployed (thousand) 3,618 3,071
Labor force participation rate (%) 47.2 48.8
Employment rate (%) 40.2 43
Unemployment rate (%) 14.9 12
Non-agricultural unemployment rate (%) 18.2 14.9
Youth unemployment rate (%) 26.5 21.2
Not in the labor force (thousand) 27,191 26,788

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