Editing Belarus (section)

===Employment===
The labor force consists of more than 4 million people, of whom women are slightly more than men.<ref name="econstats" /> In 2005, nearly a quarter of the population was employed in industrial factories. Employment is also high in agriculture, manufacturing sales, trading goods, and education. The unemployment rate was 1.5% in 2005, according to government statistics. There were 679,000 unemployed Belarusians, of whom two-thirds were women. The unemployment rate has been declining since 2003, and the overall rate of employment is the highest since statistics were first compiled in 1995.<ref name="econstats" />