The youth unemployment rate in the country is more than double the national unemployment rate, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Rosalinda Baldoz said on Tuesday.

The Philippine Statistical Authority’s Labor Force Survey found that as of April 2014, there were 1.456 million unemployed youth, accounting for 16 percent of the total youth labor force of 9.254 million.

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