
The seasonally adjusted monthly unemployment rate for April 2023 stood at 2.8 per cent, decreasing by 0.1 percentage points from the previous month.
In April 2023, the annual rate of inflation as measured by the HICP was 6.4 per cent, down from 7.1 per cent in March 2023.
In April 2023, the number of persons registering for work stood at 966 increasing by three persons when compared to the corresponding month in 2022.
Total outbound tourists for the first quarter in 2023 were estimated at 158,180, while total nights spent amounted to 1,082,039.
During the first quarter of 2023, seasonally adjusted services turnover decreased by 1.1 per cent over the fourth quarter of 2022. When compared to the same quarter of 2022, working-day adjusted turnover in selected service activities increased by 15.0 per cent.
During the first quarter of 2023, 496 building permits for a total of 2,540 new dwellings were approved (Chart 1). When compared to the corresponding quarter of 2022, the number of building permits decreased by 18.6 per cent while the number of approved new dwellings decreased by 20.7 per cent. The
- Registered Employment: December 2022
- Inbound Tourism: March 2023
- International Trade in Goods: March 2023
- Road Traffic Accidents: Q1/2023
- Residential Property Transactions: April 2023
- Index of Industrial Production: March 2023
- Government Expenditure on Social Security Benefits: January-March 2023
- Registered Business Units: 2022
- Cruise Passengers: Q1/2023
- Industrial Producer Price Indices: March 2023