Austria Still With Lowest Unemployment Rate in EU

Politics ♦ Published: January 31, 2012; 16:11 ♦ (Vindobona)

Euro area unemployment rate stands at 10.4%. Austria has second-lowest youth unemployment rate.

Austria Still With Lowest Unemployment Rate in EU / Picture: © Vindobona.org

The euro area (EA17) seasonally-adjusted2 unemployment rate3 was 10.4% in December 2011, unchanged compared with November. It was 10.0% in December 2010. The EU271 unemployment rate was 9.9% in December 2011, also unchanged compared with November. It was 9.5% in December 2010.

Eurostat estimates that 23.816 million men and women in the EU27, of whom 16.469 million were in the…