Unemployment: Austria has Top-Position Among EU27

BusinessEconomy ♦ Published: March 2, 2011; 00:03 ♦ (Vindobona)

EU27 area unemployment rate at 9.9%, Austrian unemployment rate amounts to 4.3%. National youth unemployment is below the average too.

Unemployment: Austria has Top-Position Among EU27 / Picture: © Vindobona.org

The euro area1 (EA17) seasonally-adjusted2 unemployment rate3 was 9.9% in January 2011, compared with 10.0% in December 20104. It was 10.0% in January 2010. The EU271 unemployment rate was 9.5% in January 2011, compared with 9.6% in December 20104. It was 9.5% in January 2010.

Eurostat estimates that 23.048 million men and women in the EU27, of whom 15.775 million were in the…