This represents an increase of more than 2 million employed people, compared to the same period in 2022.
In their annual comparison, the sectors with the greatest increase in their employed population were: various serviceswith 773,000 people; social serviceswith 449,000 and tradewith 342,000.
On the other hand, the underemployed population -measured as the one who declared having the need and availability to work more hours than what their current occupation demands- was 4.8 million people,
The informal population grows
In July 2023, the employed population in the labor informality was 33.1 million people and the Labor Informality Rate was 55.7% of the employed population, 0.3 percentage points more than in the seventh month of 2022.
Informality includes those who are labor vulnerable due to the nature of the economic unit for which they work, as well as people whose employment relationship or dependency does not recognize their source of work.