The eurozone unemployment rate stayed at 6.4% throughout June, July, and August, down 0.2% from August last year. However, Greece, Spain, and Sweden have the highest rates of unemployment.
The latest figures on EU unemployment are out, and it’s a bit of a mixed bag.
The bad news is that 13 million people — 5.9% of the bloc’s population — are still unemployed.
The good news is the trend is stable, and unemployment actually went down by 0.1% in August compared to June and July.
Spain (11.3%), Greece (9.5%), and Sweden (8.4%) have the highest unemployment rates.
These three countries also have the highest rates of unemployment in women.
Overall, more women in the EU are unemployed than men: 6.1% versus 5.7%.
The Eurostat dataset also shows youth unemployment figures.
More than 14% of the EU’s under-25s don’t have jobs, with the highest rates in Spain (24.7%), Sweden (23.8%), and Estonia (22.7%).
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