Greece’s unemployment rate fell slightly in December, with 27.5 per cent of the workforce registered as being out of a job, according to the Hellenic Statistics Authority (Elstat).
The figures showed the total number of people employed in December at 3,555,034, the unemployed at 1,349,495 and the economically inactive at 3,388,927.
This means that the country’s unemployment figures have grown by almost one million in five years. In December 2008, as the international crisis was breaking, 434,149 people (8.9 per cent) were recorded as unemployed.
The data showed that the unemployment rate for women (31.6 per cent) is higher than that for men (24.5 per cent).
The region of Epirus-Western Macedonia had the highest unemployment rate (30.4 per cent), while the Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands recorded the lowest rate(22.7 per cent)
In terms of age group, the largest proportion of unemployed was in the under-25 age group, where 55.5 per cent are registered as unemployed, down from 61.4 per cent in the previous month.
Source: enetenglish