KOTA KINABALU: Unemployment in Sabah is relatively low at 5.2 per cent and has not increased despite a population growth.
Based on figures by the Department of Statistics, the rate is higher than the national level at three per cent but comparable to Australia which is regarded as a fairly resilient economy, and half of France which stands at about 10.2 per cent.
In comparison, the unemployment rate in the US and UK is 8.1 per cent while Spain and Greece are at 25.1 per cent and 24.2 per cent respectively.
“The principal statistic on employment for last year showed that there were over 1.64 million in the labour force in Sabah, increasing from almost 1.59 million in 2010 and 1.35 in 2009,” said Youth & Sports Minister Datuk Peter Pang En Yin Pang.
Pang who is also Deputy Chairman of SEDIA was speaking at the opening of a public forum on ‘Human Capital Investment in SDC’ at a hotel yesterday.
There were only about 85,200 unemployed citizens in Sabah last year which is a small figure when compared to the number of foreign labour in the State, especially those in the plantation and the construction sectors.
“What is very much needed now is to locate where these unemployed citizens are and ascertain their qualifications and skills to enable them to be trained so that they can provide a pool of human capital geared to drive the economic transformation programme,” said Pang.
He said the State government with the Halatuju Agenda also recognised the critical role of human capital development and initiated the Sabah Manpower Requirement Study (2010-2025) to replace the Sabah Manpower Master Plan 1983/84 which is no longer relevant to the current economic environment.
Based on figures by the Department of Statistics, the rate is higher than the national level at three per cent but comparable to Australia which is regarded as a fairly resilient economy, and half of France which stands at about 10.2 per cent.
In comparison, the unemployment rate in the US and UK is 8.1 per cent while Spain and Greece are at 25.1 per cent and 24.2 per cent respectively.
“The principal statistic on employment for last year showed that there were over 1.64 million in the labour force in Sabah, increasing from almost 1.59 million in 2010 and 1.35 in 2009,” said Youth & Sports Minister Datuk Peter Pang En Yin Pang.
Pang who is also Deputy Chairman of SEDIA was speaking at the opening of a public forum on ‘Human Capital Investment in SDC’ at a hotel yesterday.
There were only about 85,200 unemployed citizens in Sabah last year which is a small figure when compared to the number of foreign labour in the State, especially those in the plantation and the construction sectors.
“What is very much needed now is to locate where these unemployed citizens are and ascertain their qualifications and skills to enable them to be trained so that they can provide a pool of human capital geared to drive the economic transformation programme,” said Pang.
He said the State government with the Halatuju Agenda also recognised the critical role of human capital development and initiated the Sabah Manpower Requirement Study (2010-2025) to replace the Sabah Manpower Master Plan 1983/84 which is no longer relevant to the current economic environment.
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