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Eurostat‏: Greek Unemployment Rate Eased to 25.4% in Feb

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The Greek unemployment rate eased to 25.4% of the workforce in February, compared with January, Eurostat said on Wednesday.
The EU executive’s statistics office, in a report released here, said that the unemployment rate in the Eurozone eased to 11.1% in April from 11.2% in March, while in the EU-28, the unemployment rate fell to 9.7% from 9.8% over the same months, respectively.
The number of unemployed people in the EU was 23.5 million and 17.8 million in the Eurozone in April. Greece (25.4%) recorded the highest unemployment rate in the EU, followed by Spain (22.7%), while Germany (4.7%) and Austria (5.7%) the lowest rates.
The number of unemployed people in Greece was 1.206 million in February, while unemployment among men was 22.4% and among women 29.1%. The unemployment rate among young people (aged below 25 years old) was 50.1% in February, from 49.9% in January, the highest rate in the EU, ahead of Spain (49.6%), Croatia (45.5%) and Italy (40.9%). Germany, Austria and Denmark (7.2%, 10.1% and 10.1%, respectively) recorded the lowest rates.
(source: ana-mpa)

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