Eurostat: Jobless rate in Greece for Nov. 21 at 13.4%

The unemployment rate in Greece reached 13.4 percent of the active workforce in November 2021, marginally up from 13.3 percent in October, while the jobless figures in the Eurozone and the EU fell to 7.2 percent and 6.5 percent, respectively, during the same month, Eurostat announced on Monday.

The EU executive’s statistics authority said the unemployment rate eased to 7.2 percent in the Eurozone from 7.3 percent in October, and from 8.1 percent in November 2020, while for the EU, the unemployment rate eased to 6.5 percent in November, from 6.7 percent in October, and 7.4 percent in November 2020.

Eurostat said 13.98 million people in the EU (11.83 million in the Eurozone) were unemployed in November 2021. The unemployment rate among young people aged below 25 years old was 15.5 percent in the Eurozone and 15.4 percent in the EU in November. Greece recorded the highest unemployment rate among young people (39.1 percent in November from 32.8 percent in October), followed by Spain (29.2 percent) and Italy (28 percent).