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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-09-30
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[01] Jobless rate eased to 27 pct in June, Eurostat reports
[01] Jobless rate eased to 27 pct in June, Eurostat reports
ANA-MPA -- The Greek unemployment rate eased to 27 pct in June, from
27.1 pct in May, remaining the highest in the European Union, followed
by Spain (24.4 pct in August), Eurostat said on Tuesday.
In a report released in Brussels, the EU executive's statistics arm said
that the number of unemployed people in Greece totaled 1.3 million. The
unemployment rate was 23.8 pct among men, 31.1 pct among women and 51.5
pct among young people aged below 25 years old.
The unemployment rate was unchanged at 11.5 pct in the Eurozone in August,
but fell to 10.1 pct from 10.2 pct in July in the EU. There were no
figures for Greece in July and August.
The number of unemployed people in the EU was 24.6 million and 18.3
million in the Eurozone. Austria and Germany (4.7 pct and 4.9 pct,
respectively) recorded the lowest unemployment rates in the Eurozone.
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