Greece Outside In: Unemployment in Europe: get the figures for every country

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Unemployment in Europe: get the figures for every country

The eurozone unemployment rate has hit a record high at 11.6% with 18.5m people out of jobs according to Eurostat. Get the figures for every country
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The eurozone unemployment rate rose to 11.6% in September - the highest rate on record according to official figures out today.

Spain has been hit the hardest with more than one in four out of work. Julia Kollewe writes today:

There are now 18.49 million people without jobs in the 17 countries sharing the euro, European statistics office Eurostat said on Wednesday, with an extra 146,000 joining the ranks of the unemployed last month. The jobless rate increased to 11.6% in September, the highest on record, from a revised 11.5% in August.

The latest figures from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, also show the EU27 unemployment rate stood at 10.6% in September, stable compared with the previous month.

Eurostat figures show that 25.75m people in the whole European Union were unemployed in September 2012 - an increase of 169,000 people on the previous month. Compared with September 2011, unemployment has risen by 2.145m.

Spain and Greece recorded the highest unemployment rates at 25.8% and 25.1% respectively. Despite the latest release displaying the September 2012 seasonally adjusted rates for most EU countries, there are still some gaps. The latest recorded figure for Greece is July 2012.

Austria and Luxembourg had the lowest unemployment rates at 4.4% and 5.2% respectively. Germany and the Netherlands also recorded low rates of unemployment with both at 5.4% in September 2012.

Youth unemployment in the EU has also risen. Last month there were 5.52m unemployed under-25 year-olds and the unemployment rate has risen from 21.7% in September 2011 to 22.8% in September 2012.

The table below shows the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by country and month. What can you do with this data?