LJUBLJANA, June 5 (Reuters) - The number of unemployed people in Slovenia fell to 87,655 in May, the lowest level since June 2009, the National Employment Service said on Monday.

It said the number was 3.8 percent lower than in April, and 14.3 percent lower than in May 2016.

The unemployment rate will be published in July. It reached 10.2 percent in March, the latest data available, when there were 95,189 unemployed.

Slovenia, which narrowly avoided an international bailout for its banks in 2013, returned to growth in 2014 and the government expects the export-oriented economy to expand by 3.6 percent this year from 2.5 percent in 2016.

Economic growth is boosting employment and tax revenues. Last week the finance ministry said tax revenues rose by 8.8 percent year-on-year in the first four months of 2017.

(Reporting by Marja Novak; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)