The number of unemployed people in Türkiye rose by 0.1 of a percentage point in April from the previous month to 10.2% in April, the country's statistical authority said on Monday.

The number of unemployed persons – aged 15 years old and over – was up by 74,000 month-over-month to 3.58 million in April, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said.

The unemployment rate was 8.1% for men and 14.3% for women in April, the authority noted.

The data also showed a seasonally adjusted measure of labor under-utilization rose 1.7 percentage points to 23.8%.

The survey, which was not conducted in some provinces hit by devastating February earthquakes in the previous two months, was carried out throughout the country in April, the TurkStat said.

The labor under-utilization measure has slid after peaking at 29.6% in January 2021 due to the economic fallout from pandemic measures but had started picking up again in recent months.

The TurkStat data showed the labor force participation rate in April rose to 53.9% from 53% a month earlier.

The institute said the employment rate in the country was at 48.4% in April, while the number of employed persons rose by 521,000 to 31.6 million over the same period.

The youth unemployment rate in the 15-24 age group was 19.1%, with a 1.2 percentage point decrease compared to the previous month.

"While this rate was estimated at 15.7% for men and 25.4% for women," the institute said.

In April, the unemployment rate was 4.8% on average in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) area.