The reopening of several more economic sectors has seen the unemployment rate for August
2021 declining by 4.6% to 748,800, from 778,200 people in July 2021. According to the
Department of Statistics Malaysia, the number of employed people has risen by 0.5% month on
month to a record 15.38 million people in August 2021 from 15.29 million persons in July 2021,
with the employment-to-population ratio up by 0.2 percentage points to 65.2%. The numbers in
the labour force continued to increase by 0.3% to 16.13 million persons in August 2021 from
16.07 million persons in July 2021, while the labour force participation rate during the month
improved by 0.1 percentage points to 68.4%, from 68.3% in July 2021.
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