More than 355,000 Moldovans are working or looking for work abroad from Onur Türk's blog

​Economic heavy conditions of Moldova. People are looking for different ways out. Many young Moldavian men are looking for a job abroad, both for their economic needs and to support their family.

In the second quarter of this year, around 355,400 people were declared as having gone abroad to work or looking for work, according to a report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

It is about 31,000 people (+10%) more than in the same period last year, and this figure is the highest in the last four years and nine months. At the same time, the share of those who left the number of economically active or inactive persons is the highest in the last six years.

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The National Bureau of Statistics includes these people in the category of economically inactive population aged 15 and over, which in the second quarter constituted 1,598.3 thousand people, with over 211,000 less than in the first quarter and 70,000 more a little more than a year ago.

According to the NBS, the structure of the inactive population is as follows: the majority, 35.4%, is made up of retirees, 22.2% - people declared by households as having gone abroad to work or looking for work, 15, 4% - pupils and students, 11.8% - people who take care of the family, 11% - people who (at the time of the interview) were in the country, but who do not work in Moldova because they already have a place of work (permanent or seasonal) abroad or people who plan to work abroad, and the rest, 4.2%, is made up of other categories of economically inactive people.