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March 02, 2015EU AND EURO AREA UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, JANUARY 2015 In January 2015, the unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted) in the European Union (EU28) was 9.8% (23.815 million unemployed), down 0.1 percentage points from December 2014. Compared with January 2014, unemployment rate declined by 0.8 percentage points (1.82 million persons) in EU28.
The Euro Area (EA19) unemployment rate in January 2015 was 11.2% (18.059 million unemployed), down 0.1 percentage points from December 2014, and down 0.6 percentage points (0.90 million persons) from January 2014.
Among Member States, the lowest unemployment rates in January 2015 were in Germany (4.7%), Austria (4.8%) and United Kingdom (5.6%), and the highest in Greece (25.8% in November 2014) and Spain (23.4%).In January 2015, the youth (persons under age 25) unemployment rate was 21.2% in the EU28 and 22.9% in the EA19, compared with 23.3% and 24.3%, respectively a year ago.
Note: Eurostat defines unemployed persons as individuals aged 15 to 74, who are without work and have actively sought employment at some time during the previous four weeks.
Member States: Austria (AT), Belgium (BE), Bulgaria (BG), Czech Republic (CZ), Croatia (HR), Cyprus (CY), Denmark (DK), Estonia (EE), Finland (FI), France (FR), Germany (DE), Greece (EL), Hungary (HU), Italy (IT), Ireland (IE ), Latvia (LV), Lithuania (LT), Luxembourg (LU), Malta (MT), Netherlands (NL), Poland (PL), Portugal (PT), Romania (RO), Slovenia (SI), Slovakia (SK), Spain (ES), Sweden (SE), United Kingdom (UK).
Source: Eurostat: Unemployment