BCRP: formal employment grew 1.7% compared to pre-pandemic levels

The Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP) reported that total formal employment nationwide had an increase of 1.7% in September 2021 compared to September 2019. Likewise, the BCRP reported that the number of private jobs in the formal sector registered a increase in September of 0.4% in relation to the same month in 2019, this being a positive rate since the beginning of the pandemic.

Likewise, he announced that during the first three months, private employment was 1% below the level registered in the third quarter of 2019. Progress compared to 2019 was mainly in the agriculture sector. Likewise, by geographic scope, it announced that Lima registers negative rates compared to two years ago.

In the rest of the country, formal employment grew 7.8% in the same period. On the other hand, in the third quarter, there was an increase of 0.8% in total formal employment. Finally, during 2020, he specified that this variable increased 7.3% in September and 6.9% in the third quarter.