The highest unemployment rate as of May 1 was registered in Ternopil (7.9%), Rivne (6.2%), Chernivtsi (6.1%) and Cherkasy (5.8%) oblasts; the lowest - in Kyiv (0.4%), Sevastopol (0.8%) and Odesa oblast (2.2%).
According to State Statistics Committee data, in April the state allocated assistance to the unemployed in the amount of UAH 116.219 million. It was received by 639 thousand unemployed persons; the average amount of assistance per unemployed person in April was UAH 168.39.
The State Statistics Committee reports that as of May 1 there were 197.5 thousand vacancies in Ukraine.