These are the cities with the lowest unemployment in Colombia

Recently, the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane) issued a report on unemployment rates between December 2021 and February this year.

According to the entity's figures, for the month of February 2022, the unemployment rate was 12.9%, the overall participation rate 64.2% and the employment rate 55.9%. In the same month last year, these rates were 15.5%, 62.5% and 52.8%, respectively.

In the report released by Dane, the cities with the lowest unemployment rate in the country were also identified. It should be noted that the measurement was made with 23 cities in the national territory.

The first place is occupied by Armenia, this is the city where there is the lowest unemployment of the cities that the study takes into account. In that city, the unemployment rate is 8.8 per cent. The second city in this measurement is Bucaramanga, which has 9.6%.

Followed by these two cities is Villavicencio, with an unemployment rate last quarter of 10.9%. Then Manizales is located, with 11.1% unemployment, followed by Cartagena with 11.5 and in sixth place is Medellín with 11.7 percentage points.

The Secretary of Economic Development of Medellín, Alejandro Arias, highlighted the decrease in this figure in the capital of Antioquia compared to when the covid-19 pandemic began.

After Medellín, Pereira is located, with an unemployment rate of 12.4; Neiva with 12.7 and Cali in ninth place out of 23 with 12.8%. The country's capital is in 15th place with an unemployment rate of 14.2%.

On the other hand, the five cities with the highest unemployment rate of the 23 that were considered for this study are: Quibdó with 23.1%; Tunja with 17.5%; Valledupar with 16.7%; Popayán with 15.9% and Riohacha with 15.8 percentage points.

Variation in the unemployment rate for February

As of February 2022, according to the report presented by Dane, the unemployment rate was 12.9% and compared to the same month in 2021 (15.5%) it had a reduction of 2.6 percentage points. The overall participation rate was 64.2%, which meant an increase of 1.7 percentage points compared to the same period in 2021 (62.5%). Finally, the employment rate was 55.9%, which represented an increase of 3.1 percentage points compared to February 2021 (52.8%).

Likewise, it was established that the country's employed population was 21.7 million people, compared to 20.2 million in the same month in 2021, thus representing a variation of 7.5%. The 13 cities and metropolitan areas contributed 4.3 percentage points (p.p.) to the national variation; in this domain there was an employed population of 10.2 million people, 876,000 more people compared to February 2021 (9.3 million).

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