YEREVAN, OCTOBER 11, NOYAN TAPAN. Nearly 25% of Armenian population or 821.6 thousand are 16-30-year-old people. According to the Armenian Youth National Report, nearly 22% Armenian youth is unemployed. 13.2% of them as the reason of their unemployment mentioned the lack of jobs, 3.6% the lack of job by their speciality, 1.1% obstacles in the way of being engaged in entrepreneurship. Nearly 66% of young enemployed youth is women, 21.9% of unemployed youth has higher education. 62.6% of the respondents is not aware of the State Employment Service. And only 4.2% of those who are aware of it knows about the retraining courses organized by the Service. 75.5% of the young participants of the survey considers that "the state should provide its citizens with a job." According to young people, education and skilfulness should be the first condition for being employed for a job. 38.7% of them is sure that they will have a job ensuring minimum living standards.

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