According to the data released by the Employment and Vocational Training Institute (IEFP), the number of registered unemployed in the Azores registered a decrease of 10 percent in March compared to the same month in 2016.
Data released by IEFP also show a decline of 11.1 percent in youth unemployment.
With regard to the registration period, unemployed who have been registered for less than a year and long-term unemployed decreased by 14 and 3.2 percent, respectively.
In March, there was also a decrease in the number of unemployed compared to the previous month, the lowest in the last five and a half years.
The Agencies for Qualification and Employment registered in March 9,592 registrations in the Region.