There are more unemployed in Kazakhstan than in Russia

According to data from the Eurasian Economic Commission, there are more than 330,000 unemployed people in Kazakhstan (3.5% of the total workforce), the only country in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) where the number of unemployed people has increased over the year. The increase over the year was 3.2% (27,000 people).
Meanwhile, the number of unemployed people has been decreasing in other EEU countries. Only 0.4% of the total workforce are officially unemployed in Russia (283,000 people), and their number decreased by 0.1% over a year.
The number of unemployed in Kyrgyzstan decreased from 65,100 to 48,400 people over the year (2.4% versus 1.7%) and by 8,600 people in Armenia (from 45,700 to 37,100, or 3.4% versus 2.8%).
The smallest number of unemployed people is in Belarus— 3,300 or 0.1% of the total labor force. 1,000 people found a job in the country over the year.
Totally, 704,900 or 0.8% of people were unemployed in the EEU member states at the end of February (a 14.8% downfall compared to the same date in 2024).

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