It said the number of unemployed was down 2.8 percent from August and 9.2 percent compared with September 2015.

The jobless rate will be published by the statistics office in November. In July, the latest data available, the rate was 10.8 percent with 99,117 people unemployed.

"The number of jobless has been falling for eight months in a row," the service said. Most of the new jobs in September were for teachers, waiters and truck drivers, it said.

The government expects joblessness to keep falling over the next two years as the economy continues to expand, more evidence it has recovered since 2013, when Slovenia narrowly avoided an international bailout of its banks.

The government's macroeconomic institute had forecast gross domestic product will grow 2.9 percent in 2017 and 2.6 percent in 2018, up from the 2.3 percent seen this year. Exports, higher household consumption and a growth of investments from 2017 onwards are expected to underpin growth.

Prime Minister Miro Cerar told parliament earlier on Wednesday the government's main goals in the coming two years were to promote further economic growth with higher investments, which will be based on higher inflows from European funds, and to further consolidate public finances.

The budget plans, which Cerar presented to parliament, envisage a budget deficit of 1.6 percent of GDP in 2017 and 1 percent in 2018, down from about 2.2 percent expected this year.