The Region registered a very considerable drop in registered unemployment in May. According to data from the Institute for Employment and Vocational Training, last month there were 11,869 registered unemployed in Madeira. The number represents a drop of 40.3% compared to the same period of the previous year and -9.3% compared to the previous month (April).
At the national level, RAM was the second region with the greatest decrease in registered unemployed. Only the Algarve achieved a greater decline in relation to the same period in the previous year (-54.8%). The decline in unemployment in both regions is largely due to Tourism, which has grown exponentially in recent months.
If we compare it to the pre-pandemic period (May 2019), the drop recorded this year is 24.6%.
Madeira represents 4% of registered unemployment in the country. The Azores is the region with the fewest registered unemployed, in May: 6,033.
You have to go back more than 13 years to find a lower value, with the month of April 2009 counting 11,844 subscribers. Comparing the values of the months of May of the last years, only going back to 2008, the period before the last great financial crisis, a value is lower than that registered in this month of May.
Also to note that 58% of the unemployed do not receive a subsidy. The number of people without work fell by 40% in May, compared to the same period last year, but most do not receive state support, whose average is 494 euros. The RSI rises slightly and sickness benefits soar.