After graduating from a four-year college, the number of young people in their 20s and 30s who just took off last month without working or looking for a job reached 200,000. This is a 40% increase from a year ago.
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On the 27th, Yonhap News analyzed microdata from the National Statistical Office and found that 486,000 (20.7%) were college graduates out of the 2,353,000 people who had’rested’ last month. It seems that one in five people took a break last month. The total rested last month was the largest as of November since 2003 when the statistical standards were changed.
Last month, college graduates took a break. Looking at the population by age, 106,000 were in their 20s and 87,000 were in their 30s. Only 193,000 college graduates in their 20s and 30s, who start their social life, are just resting. This is an increase of 56,000 people (40.4%) compared to the same month last year (137,000).
In particular, the number of people in their twenties surpassed 100,000, increasing 51.6% (36,000) from 70,000 last year to 106,000 this year. In addition, 58,000 people in their 40s, 78,000 people in their 50s, and 158,000 people over 60.
Of the 2030 who were just off last month, college graduates (193,000), graduate school graduates (7,000), and first-class graduates (146,000) total 346,000.
The inactive population refers to a person over the age of 15 who is not capable of or willing to work. Among them, a person who is classified as being on rest literally means’a person who is on rest’ without preparing for employment, doing housework, or raising children.
When looking at the total’rested’ population by age, it was also counted that the number of people in their 20s increased the most. Last month, the number of people in their 20s who took a break from a year ago increased by 88,000 (26.8%), showing the largest increase. The number of people in their 30s increased by 39,000 (17.1%). In addition, 33,000 people (14.1%) in their 40s and 68,000 people (7.7%) over 60 years old. Those in their 50s (-3.9%) decreased slightly.
Reporter Yong Won-joong [email protected]
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