The unemployment rate in Greece decreased in March 2024, reaching 10.2%, compared to 11.4% in March 2023.
The unemployed amounted to 492,867 people, marking a decrease by 47,319 people compared to March 2023 (8.8%) and by 24,176 people compared to February 2024 (4.7%).
For women, the unemployment rate rose to 13.8% from 14.6% in March last year and for men to 7.2% from 8.7%.
By major age groups, in the 15-24 year old group the unemployment rate rose to 21.1% from 24.8% in March 2023 and in the 25-74 year old age group to 9.6% from 10.6%.
Also according to its labor force survey ELSTATthe employed amounted to 4,325,848 people, marking an increase of 115,672 people compared to March 2023 (2.7%) and by 33,442 people compared to February 2024 (0.8%).
While, with information from protothema, people under the age of 75 not in the labor force, or “people outside the labor force” (people neither working nor looking for work), amounted to 2,966,414 people, a decrease of 95,459 people compared to March 2023 (3.1%) and by 11,608 people compared to February 2024 (0.4%).
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