Portugal's unemployment rate fell to 5.7% in the second quarter from 6.7% a year earlier and from 5.9% in the preceding three months, official data showed on Wednesday.

Between April and June of this year, the total number of those unemployed decreased by 3.1% to 298,800 people from the previous three months and fell 13.6% from the same period last year, the National Statistics Institute said.

The total workforce was little changed compared to the previous quarter at 5.2 million people. (Reporting by Tiago Brandao)


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