He eurozone strike remained stable in December compared to the previous month at a record low of 6.6%, with Spain at the head of unemployment, with a rate of 13.1%, according to the data published this Monday by Eurostat, the community statistical office. The unemployment rate in the euro area thus stood eight tenths below the level prior to the pandemic, since in February 2020 unemployment among the euro countries was 7.4%. Also, in the whole of the European Union The unemployment rate also repeated in December the historical minimum of 6.1% of the previous month.
The European Statistical Office estimates that 13.148 million people were unemployed in the EU in December 2022, of which 11.048 million were in the euro zone. This represents a monthly increase of 28,000 unemployed in the EU and 23,000 in the euro zone. Compared to December 2021, the number of unemployed people decreased by 518,000 in the EU and by 494,000 in the Eurozone.
Among the Twenty-seven, the highest unemployment rates corresponded to Spain, with 13.1%; Greece, with 11.6%; and Italy, with 7.8%. On the contrary, the lowest unemployment figures were observed in Czech Republic (2.3%), Poland and Germany (2.9% each).
In the case of under 25 years, the unemployment rate in the euro zone remained stable at 14.8% in December, while in the EU as a whole the figure rose to 15% from 14.8% in November. In absolute terms, the number of unemployed young people in the EU reached 2.86 million people in the last month of the year, of which 2.31 million corresponded to the euro area.
In it case of Spain, in December 2022, 3.08 million people were unemployed, of which 486,000 were under 25 years of age. Thus, the youth unemployment rate in Spain was 29.6%, the highest among the Twenty-seven, ahead of Greece’s 28.9% and Italy’s 22.6%.
