Unemployment in Chile reaches 8.4% pressured by the increase in the workforce. People participating in the labor force showed an increase of 3.4%, but those employed only increased by 2.9%.
In any case, informality continued to rise. The informal employment rate stood at 27.6% in one year, and informally employed people increased by 4%. Meanwhile, the population outside the labor. force decreased 2. 9% in 12 months, influenced by the habitually inactive people, who according to the latest record number just over six million.