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The national unemployment rate was 10.3pc , an increase from 9.5pc a year earlier, the DANE statistics agency said.
Colombia's urban jobless rate is more closely watched by financial markets than the national figure because nearly 70 percent of the country's workforce is in large cities.
Unemployment figures are not seasonally adjusted and can be volatile, depending on factors such as peak shopping periods and vacation months when retail and tourism employment generally rises.