Greek Unemployment Rate Eased to 20.6 pct in Jan, Eurostat Report
Thursday, 03 May 2018
The Greek unemployment rate eased to 20.6 pct of the workforce in January 2018, from 20.8 pct in December 2017, Eurostat said on Wednesday.
The EU executive's statistics agency, in a report released here, said that Greece and Cyprus recorded the biggest decline in the unemployment rate in January compared with the previous year.
The number of unemployed people in Greece was 977,000 in January, with unemployment rates among men at 16.7 pct and among women at 25.6 pct. The unemployment rate among young people (aged below 25 years olrd) fell to 42.3 pct in January, from 43.3 pct in December 2017 and 45.3 pct in March 2017.