The Greek statistics authority ELSTAT has published its latest seasonally adjusted divs on the labor force and found that the rate of unemployment was 23.1% in September 2016, compared to 23.3% in August 2016 and 24.7% in September 2015.
The number of employed amounted to 3,690,168 persons. The number of unemployed amounted to 1,111,490 while the number of inactive to 3,237,622. The number of employed persons increased by 60,544 persons compared with September 2015 (a 1.7% rate of increase) and by 5,256 persons compared with August 2016 (a 0.1% rate of increase).
Unemployed persons decreased by 81,013 persons compared with September 2015 (a 6.8% rate of decrease) and by 9,903 persons compared with August 2016 (a 0.9% rate of decrease). Inactive persons, i.e. persons that neither work neither look for a job, decreased by 17,556 persons compared with September 2015 (a 0.5% rate of decrease) and increased by 1,571 persons compared with August 2016 (negligible change).
The full set of divs and tables are available online.
