EU 6.25
· European ranking
5 / 34
Down 1 positions compared with previous year
Greece: Unemployment rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
8.90% of labour force
EU 6.25 · +2.7 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures unemployed people as a percentage of the labour force aged 15 to 74.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
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· 2025 · 13 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+71.91
15.30
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2+31.46
11.70
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3+19.10
10.60
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4+11.24
9.90
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5+8.99
9.70
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6+1.12
9.00
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7-4.49
8.50
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8-6.74
8.30
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9-8.99
8.10
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10-17.98
7.30
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11-28.09
6.40
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12-29.21
6.30
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13-42.70
5.10
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Greece performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Unemployment rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Greece
In Greece, Unemployment rate is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 8.9% versus 6.3% in 2025, with a gap of 2.7 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Greece, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 17.60% in 2020 to 8.90% in 2025. The latest step, from 10.10% in 2024 to 8.90% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.
Regional differences in Greece
In Greece, regional differences in Unemployment rate are pronounced. Across 13 comparable regions, Dytiki Makedonia records the highest value (15.3%) and Kriti the lowest (5.1%), a gap of 10.2 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Greece, Employment & Economic Security shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.