channel for the latest stories and updates. Malaysia’s unemployment rate has continued to decline in April 2021, lessening by 0.1 percentage point to 4.6% compared to March which was at 4.7%, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM). DOSM said in their Key Statistics of Labour Force in Malaysia, April 2021 report that the number of unemployed workers has reduced in April by 10,500 to 742,700 compared to the previous month which was 753,200. In April, the number of employed persons saw an increasing trend with 15.35 million persons employed. In March, the number of employed persons was 15.33 million The employment-to-population ratio which indicates the ability of an economy to create employment remained unchanged at 65.4% in April 2021.