Greek unemployment rate eased to 24.2 pct in Feb, Eurostat
The EU executive's statistics agency, in report released here, said that the unemployment rate in the Eurozone was 10.2 pct in April, unchanged from March and remained at the lowest level since August 2011. In the EU-28, the unemployment rate eased to 8.7 pct in April, from 8.8 pct in March, the lowest level since May 2009. The unemployment rate in the Eurozone was 11 pct and in the EU-28 9.6 pct in April 2015. A total of 21.22 million people were unemployed in the EU and 16.42 million in the Eurozone in April.
Greece (24.2 pct in February) and Spain (20.1 pct) in April recorded the highest unemployment rates in the EU, while Czech (4.1 pct), Germany (4.2 pct) and Malta (4.3 pct) recorded the lowest unemployment rates.
In Greece, a total of 1.16 million people were unemployed. The unemployment rate among men was 20.6 pct and among women 28.7 pct. Unemployment among young people aged below 25 years was 51.4 pct in February.