in the four years thereafter more than 600 thousand jobs were lost in the formal and informal segment of the labour market. I will therefore repeat – despite the pandemic, the average number of formally employed people in the private sector is now by almost 100 thousand higher than in 2019.
At the highest level are also average net wages, which rose in the private sector by 19.2% during 2020 and 2021. Further, the export of goods and services worth EUR 28.6 bn in 2021 is at its record high, and by EUR 5.2 bn or 22% higher than in the excellent, pre-crisis 2019.