Greek unemployment rate was 27.3% in April this year, unchanged from March, but slightly down from 27.5% in April 2013, with the number of unemployed totalling 1,303,454 and the unemployment rate among young people -aged up to 24 years old- at 56.3%.
The Hellenic Statistical Authority (EL.STAT) reported that the number of unemployed people fell by 26,944 in April compared with April 2013 (a decline of 2.0%) and by 1,266 compared with March 2014 (a decline of 0.1%).
Greece’s financially non-active population totaled 3,370,392, up by 17,095 compared with April 2013. The unemployment rate among women was 30.7% in April, down from 31.5% in April 2013, while the rate among men rose to 24.6% from 24.4% over the same period.
Unemployment by age is as follows: 15-24 age group (56.3% from 58.9% in April 2013), 25-34 age group (36.1% from 35.7%), 35-44 age group (24.8% from 23.7%), 45-54 age group (20.4% from 20.8%), 55-64 age group (17.3% from 16.1%) and 65-74 age group (8.6% from 10%).
Macedonia-Thrace (28.6%) and Epirus-Western Macedonia (28.6%) recorded the highest unemployment rates among the country’s regions, followed by Attica (28.1%), the Peloponese-Western Greece-Ionian Islands (26.4%), Thessaly-Central Greece (26.2%), Aegean (22.5%) and Crete (21.9%).
(source: ana-mpa)
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