In April there were 26,000 fewer unemployed people in Finland than a year earlier. In the course of the past 12 months, the unemployment rate has declined by one percentage point to 6.2%.
Adjusted for seasonal and random variation, the April trend of the unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent.
This was the first time that the seasonally adjusted rate of unemployment has dropped under the 6%-mark since before the recession, in other words since May 1991.
The number of employed Finns between the ages of 15 and 64 years was up in April by about 45,000 from the same month in 2007.
This translates to an employment rate of 70%.
