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<br>LISBON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The number of people registered as unemployed in Portugal was 34.5% higher in October from a year ago due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, with the tourism-dependent Algarve region suffering the hardest blow, official data showed on Thursday.<br> <br>The total of those officially without a job rose to 403,554 people, [http://search.un.org/search?ie=utf8&site=un_org&output=xml_no_dtd&client=UN_Website_en&num=10&lr=lang_en&proxystylesheet=UN_Website_en&oe=utf8&q=meaning&Submit=Go meaning] more than 100,000 jobs have been lost across the nation since October 2019, the Institute for Employment and Vocational Training said.<br> <br>In the southern Algarve, famous for  [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html hoa tam giác mạch] its beaches and golf courses, the number of registered jobless rose 134% to 24,088 last month from a year ago.<br> <br>Though the year-on-year figures showed a huge jump, the number of those registered as jobless fell 1.6% in Portugal as a whole in October compared to the previous month.<br> <br>Around 72% of the newly unemployed worked in the services sector including restaurants and  [https://kynghidongduong.vn/blog/le-hoi-hoa-tam-giac-mach-ha-giang-va-nhung-diem-check-in-voi-hoa-dep-nhat.html kynghidongduong.vn] retail stores, now open but that were shut during a six-week lockdown earlier this year.<br> <br>The government expects the unemployment rate, which had gradually fallen to record lows during the recovery, to rise to 8.7% this year due to the pandemic, but experts say the actual jobless level would be much higher as the official rate does not include those who stopped looking for jobs.<br> <br>The coronavirus outbreak, so far numbering 235,015 confirmed cases and 3,632 deaths, is set to hammer Portugal's economy.<br><br>The government expects gross domestic product to contract by 8.5% this year, which would be the worst slump in almost a century. ([http://news.sky.com/search?term=Reporting Reporting] by Catarina Demony; Editing by Angus MacSwan)<br>