The Eurostat also released the unemployment report for the EU but for the month of May. The unemployment rate in the Euro area stood at 9.5% (seasonally-adjusted) in May. In the expanded EU 27 states, the unemployment rate was 8.9% in May. An estimated 21.462 million in the EU27, of which 15.013 million were in the Euro area, were unemployed last month.
The lowest unemployment rates were in:
The Netherlands – 3.2%
Austria – 4.3%
The highest unemployment rates were in:
Spain – 18.7%
Latvia – 16.3%
Estonia – 15.6%
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