HANOI, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- The unemployment rate among Vietnamese young people rose to 7.67 percent in the second quarter of this year, an institute under Vietnam's labor ministry said on Saturday.

The number of unemployed young people in the second quarter increased by 26,600 to 575,100, according to the Institute of Labor Science and Social Affairs under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.

The unemployment rates among university, college and vocational school graduates were 3.63 percent, 4.96 percent and 3.5 percent, respectively. The rate of unemployed university graduates in the first quarter was 2.79 percent.

In the second quarter, the number of unemployed university graduates rose by 44,200 to 183,100 from the first quarter.

However, the rate of unemployment among people of working age declined to 2.26 percent, the lowest in the last five quarters.

The number of jobless people was 1.08 million, down 20,100 from the first quarter.

Among eight economic areas across Vietnam, the Mekong Delta and the Southeast region had the highest unemployment rates of 2.95 percent and 2.65 percent, respectively.

Skilled laborers, who underwent training for at least three months, represented 22.6 percent of the total workforce. The average income of paid workers decreased against the first quarter.

Vietnam will need over 1.3 trillion Vietnamese dong (58.3 million U.S. dollars) to assist training and labor export activities to send nearly 58,400 local people with academic qualifications, mainly unemployed graduates, to work abroad in the 2018-2025 period.