ULAN BATOR, July 30 (Xinhua)-- The number of jobless people in Mongolia went down 11.1 percent from the same period last year, with 25,800 people registering themselves as unemployed in the first half of this year, data from the National Statistical Office of Mongolia showed Monday.

But the figure was 7.5 percentage points higher month on month.

More than half of the unemployed are female. The unemployment rate was the highest in the age group of 15-34 years.

Mongolia has a population of nearly 3 million.

During the first six months of 2018, only 9,800 people out of the total number of registered unemployed people got a new job through intermediaries.