Euro-area jobless rate unchanged in August versus July at 12% on seasonally adjusted basis, up from 11.5% a year ago; EU rate unchanged from July at 10.9%, was 10.6% a year ago: Eurostat
Cindy Allen
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October 1, 2013
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The euro area1 (EA17) seasonally-adjusted2 unemployment rate3 was 12.0% in August 2013, stable compared with July4. The EU281 unemployment rate was 10.9%, also stable compared with July4. In both zones, rates have risen compared with August 2012, when they were 11.5% and 10.6% respectively. These figures are published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In August 2013, 26.595 million men and women were unemployed in the EU28, of whom 19.178 million were in the euro area. Compared with July 2013, the number of persons unemployed remained nearly stable in both the EU28 and the euro area. Compared with August 2012, unemployment rose by 882 000 in the EU28 and by 895 000 in the euro area. Member States Among the Member States, the lowest unemployment rates were recorded in Austria (4.9%), Germany (5.2%) and Luxembourg (5.8%), and the highest in Greece (27.9% in June 2013) and Spain (26.2%). Compared with a year ago, the unemployment rate increased in sixteen Member States, fell in eleven and remained stable in Poland. The highest increases were registered in Cyprus (12.3% to 16.9%) and Greece (24.6% to 27.9% between June 2012 and June 2013). The largest decreases were observed in Latvia (15.6% to 11.4% between the second quarters of 2012 and 2013) and Estonia (10.1% to 7.9% between July 2012 and July 2013). In August 2013, the unemployment rate in the United States was 7.3%, down from 7.4% in July 2013 and from 8.1% in August 2012. Youth unemployment In August 2013, 5.499 million young persons (under 25) were unemployed in the EU28, of whom 3.457 million were in the euro area. Compared with August 2012, youth unemployment decreased by 123 000 in the EU28 and by The euro area (EA17) consists of Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia and Finland. The EU28 includes Belgium (BE), Bulgaria (BG), the Czech Republic (CZ), Denmark (DK), Germany (DE), Estonia (EE), Ireland (IE), Greece (EL), Spain (ES), France (FR), Croatia (HR), Italy (IT), Cyprus (CY), Latvia (LV), Lithuania (LT), Luxembourg (LU), Hungary (HU), Malta (MT), the Netherlands (NL), Austria (AT), Poland (PL), Portugal (PT), Romania (RO), Slovenia (SI), Slovakia (SK), Finland (FI), Sweden (SE) and the United Kingdom (UK). The tables also include Iceland (IS), Norway (NO) and the United States (US). Non-seasonally adjusted and trend data can be found in the statistical database on the Eurostat website. For further details please refer to the Unemployment statistics article in Statistics Explained: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Unemployment_statistics Eurostat produces harmonised unemployment rates for individual EU Member States, the euro area and the EU. These unemployment rates are based on the definition recommended by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The measurement is based on a harmonised source, the European Union Labour Force Survey (LFS). Based on the ILO definition, Eurostat defines unemployed persons as persons aged 15 to 74 who: - are without work; - are available to start work within the next two weeks; - and have actively sought employment at some time during the previous four weeks. The unemployment rate is the number of people unemployed as a percentage of the labour force. The labour force is the total number of people employed plus unemployed. In this news release unemployment rates are based on employment and unemployment data covering persons aged 15 to 74. The data in this News Release are normally subject to small revisions, caused by the updates to the seasonally adjusted series whenever new monthly data are added. Larger revisions can occur when the most recent LFS data are included in the calculation process. Compared with the rates published in News Release 126/2013 of 30 August 2013, the July 2013 unemployment rate was revised from 12.1% to 12.0% for the EA17 and from 11.0% to 10.9% for the EU28. Among Member States, the rate has been revised by between 0.2 and 0.4 percentage points for Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Luxembourg, Malta, and Slovakia. The rate has been revised downwards by 0.9 percentage points for Cyprus and by 0.8 percentage points for Slovenia. The youth unemployment rate is the number of people aged 15 to 24 unemployed as a percentage of the labour force of the same age. Therefore, the youth unemployment rate should not be interpreted as the share of jobless people in the overall youth population. For further details please refer to the Youth unemployment article in Statistics Explained: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Youth_unemployment Latvia: quarterly data for all series. Croatia, Cyprus, Romania and Slovenia: quarterly data for youth unemployment. For Germany, Austria, Finland and Iceland the trend component is used instead of the more volatile seasonally adjusted data. Seasonally adjusted unemployment Totals Rates (%) Number of persons (in thousands) Aug 12 May 13 June 13 July 13 Aug 13 Aug 12 May 13 June 13 July 13 Aug 13 EA17 11.5 12.1 12.1 12.0 12.0 18 283 19 212 19 194 19 183 19 178 EU28 10.6 10.9 10.9 10.9 10.9 25 713 26 677 26 633 26 602 26 595 BE 7.6 8.5 8.5 8.7 8.7 375 421 424 433 437 BG 12.3 12.9 12.9 13.0 13.0 412 436 435 439 439 CZ 7.0 7.0 6.9 6.9 6.9 369 374 363 365 364 DK 7.4 6.8 6.7 6.7 6.6 214 196 192 194 189 DE7 5.4 5.3 5.3 5.2 5.2 2 292 2 264 2 247 2 227 2 207 EE 10.1** 8.0 7.9 7.9 : 71** 57 56 55 : IE 14.7 13.9 13.8 13.7 13.6 317 299 299 297 295 EL 24.6* 27.6 27.9 : : 1 229* 1 383 1 404 : : ES 25.6 26.4 26.3 26.2 26.2 5 909 5 987 5 946 5 923 5 893 FR 10.3 10.8 10.9 11.0 11.0 3 006 3 181 3 217 3 244 3 243 HR 15.8 16.9 17.0 16.9 16.9 276 285 285 285 284 IT 10.7 12.2 12.1 12.1 12.2 2 732 3 117 3 090 3 084 3 127 CY 12.3 15.9 16.3 16.4 16.9 54 71 73 73 76 LV6 15.6*** 11.4 11.4 : : 148*** 115 115 : : LT 13.1 11.8 11.9 12.2 12.3 193 172 173 179 180 LU 5.1 5.8 5.8 5.9 5.8 13 15 15 15 15 HU 10.7** 10.4 10.4 10.2 : 467** 457 457 450 : MT 6.3 6.6 6.5 6.4 6.4 12 12 12 12 12 NL 5.3 6.6 6.8 7.0 7.0 468 594 613 626 629 AT7 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 195 200 204 212 215 PL 10.3 10.5 10.5 10.4 10.3 1 772 1 824 1 807 1 793 1 784 PT 16.3 17.0 16.7 16.6 16.5 885 903 889 879 877 RO 6.9 7.3 7.5 7.5 7.5 693 727 746 739 744 SI 9.5 10.7 10.5 10.4 10.4 96 108 106 104 105 SK 14.1 14.2 14.2 14.1 14.0 383 385 386 381 378 FI7 7.8 8.1 8.0 8.0 8.0 211 216 214 213 212 SE 8.1 7.9 7.9 7.8 8.0 412 401 405 398 406 UK 7.9* 7.7 7.7 : : 2 529* 2 480 2 464 : : IS7 5.9 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 11 10 10 10 10 NO 3.1** 3.5 3.4 3.6 : 85** 93 91 97 : US 8.1 7.6 7.6 7.4 7.3 12 538 11 722 11 805 11 514 11 374 Source: Eurostat : Data not available * June 2012 ** July 2012 *** Q2 2012 Seasonally adjusted youth (under 25s) unemployment Rates (%) Number of persons (in thousands) Aug 12 May 13 June 13 July 13 Aug 13 Aug 12 May 13 June 13 July 13 Aug 13 EA17 23.4 23.7 23.8 23.8 23.7 3 509 3 508 3 500 3 479 3 457 EU28 23.1 23.4 23.4 23.4 23.3 5 622 5 599 5 574 5 531 5 499 BE 20.4 23.2 23.3 23.7 23.8 84 97 98 100 100 BG 26.2 28.6 28.9 28.8 28.2 65 68 67 66 65 CZ 19.4 18.4 18.3 18.6 19.0 73 68 67 68 69 DK 13.1 11.9 11.7 12.0 11.5 58 51 51 52 49 DE7 8.0 7.7 7.8 7.8 7.7 362 351 352 352 349 EE 20.2 14.8 15.3 15.7 : 14 10 10 11 : IE 30.4 28.0 28.2 28.5 28.5 68 60 61 61 61 EL 56.9 62.0 61.5 : : 179 184 182 : : ES 54.4 55.6 55.8 55.9 56.0 962 914 893 877 863 FR 25.0 25.3 25.7 25.8 25.5 702 715 717 717 701 HR6 44.7 52.0 52.0 : : 69 78 78 : : IT 34.6 38.2 39.1 39.7 40.1 594 635 643 642 667 CY6 28.1 38.6 38.6 : : 12 16 16 : : LV6 29.9 19.7 19.7 : : 31 18 18 : : LT 26.1 22.2 22.6 23.1 23.2 32 28 28 29 29 LU 17.9 18.4 18.7 18.2 18.4 3 3 3 3 3 HU 28.9 27.6 28.1 27.7 : 88 86 89 88 : MT 14.6 13.7 13.7 13.4 13.3 4 4 4 4 4 NL 9.4 10.6 11.0 11.5 11.4 132 152 158 164 162 AT7 9.3 8.6 9.3 9.1 8.6 56 50 56 55 50 PL 26.7 26.7 26.3 26.2 26.0 407 402 393 381 373 PT 40.1 39.4 38.3 37.3 36.8 177 154 147 139 136 RO6 22.4 23.2 23.2 : : 189 187 187 : : SI6 22.9 25.0 25.0 : : 17 20 20 : : SK 34.7 33.6 34.1 32.6 31.8 79 74 76 72 68 FI7 19.0 20.1 20.0 19.8 19.7 64 66 66 65 65 SE 25.6 23.3 23.8 23.1 23.6 163 152 154 152 157 UK 20.6 21.4 21.1 : : 938 956 944 : : IS7 12.5 11.3 11.1 11.0 10.9 4 4 4 4 4 NO 8.7 8.6 8.7 9.5 : 33 33 33 37 : Seasonally adjusted unemployment rates (%), by gender Males Females Aug 12 May 13 June 13 July 13 Aug 13 Aug 12 May 13 June 13 July 13 Aug 13 EA17 11.3 11.9 11.9 11.9 11.9 11.7 12.3 12.2 12.3 12.3 EU28 10.5 10.9 10.9 10.9 10.8 10.6 11.0 11.0 11.0 11.0 BE 7.7 8.7 8.8 8.9 9.0 7.6 8.2 8.2 8.4 8.4 BG 13.7 13.9 14.0 14.2 14.2 10.6 11.7 11.7 11.7 11.6 CZ 6.0 6.0 5.8 5.9 5.7 8.3 8.3 8.2 8.2 8.3 DK 7.5 6.3 6.0 5.9 5.7 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.6 7.5 DE7 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.5 5.1 4.9 4.9 4.8 4.8 EE 10.7 7.9 8.1 8.2 : 9.3 8.1 7.8 7.6 : IE 17.8 15.9 15.9 15.8 15.6 10.9 11.4 11.3 11.3 11.3 EL 22.6 24.6 24.9 : : 29.2 31.5 31.9 : : ES 25.4 25.6 25.5 25.3 25.2 25.9 27.3 27.2 27.3 27.4 FR 10.1 10.7 10.8 10.8 10.8 10.5 10.9 11.0 11.2 11.2 HR 16.0 17.9 18.0 18.0 18.0 15.7 15.7 15.7 15.7 15.8 IT 9.8 11.5 11.5 11.5 11.7 11.9 13.1 12.9 12.8 12.9 CY 12.9 16.2 16.6 16.4 16.9 11.6 15.5 16.0 16.3 17.0 LV6 15.2 12.0 12.0 : : 13.5 10.8 10.8 : : LT 15.0 13.1 13.2 13.4 13.6 11.1 10.5 10.6 11.1 11.1 LU 4.5 5.0 5.1 5.1 5.1 5.8 6.6 6.7 6.7 6.7 HU 11.0 10.2 10.3 10.1 : 10.3 10.7 10.4 10.3 : MT 5.6 6.6 6.6 6.4 6.4 7.7 6.5 6.3 6.4 6.3 NL 5.3 7.1 7.4 7.4 7.4 5.2 6.1 6.2 6.5 6.6 AT7 4.5 4.6 4.6 4.8 5.1 4.4 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.7 PL 9.6 9.9 9.8 9.7 9.6 11.0 11.4 11.3 11.3 11.2 PT 16.7 16.9 16.5 16.3 16.2 15.8 17.1 17.0 16.9 16.9 RO 7.5 7.9 8.3 8.2 8.2 6.3 6.5 6.6 6.5 6.7 SI 8.8 10.2 10.0 9.8 9.9 10.5 11.3 11.1 11.0 10.9 SK 13.5 13.8 13.9 13.7 13.6 14.8 14.6 14.7 14.5 14.6 FI7 8.5 8.8 8.7 8.6 8.6 7.2 7.3 7.3 7.3 7.3 SE 8.5 8.1 8.2 8.0 8.1 7.7 7.6 7.6 7.5 7.8 UK 8.1 8.3 8.2 : : 7.3 7.1 7.0 : : IS7 6.3 6.0 6.2 6.1 6.0 5.4 5.1 5.0 4.9 4.9 NO 3.4 3.6 3.5 3.8 : 2.7 3.3 3.1 3.4 : Source: Eurostat : Data not available
52 000 in the euro area. In August 2013, the youth unemployment rate5 was 23.3% in the EU28 and 23.7% in the euro area, compared with 23.1% and 23.4% respectively in August 2012. In August 2013, the lowest rates were observed in Germany (7.7%) and Austria (8.6%), and the highest in Greece (61.5% in June 2013), Spain (56.0%) and Croatia (52.0% in the second quarter of 2013).
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