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Unemployment hits 2.6m. Over 1m 16-24 year olds out of work
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worldtraveller wrote: »Although the youth unemployment rate is indeed a sad situation it's still around the European average.
The rate in the EU-27 was 20.9% in 2010. In the Euro area the rate was marginally lower at 20.7 % and in the UK it was 19.6%.
In Q2 2011 the UK figure was 20.4% against the EU-27 rate of 21% and Euro area rate of 20.5%.
Therefore with the UK rate at 21.9% for Q3 2011 I would imagine it is still around the average rate for Europe, possibly very slightly higher.
Latest figures out today from Eurostat show that in November, 2011 49.6% of young people (under 25) were unemployed in Spain, which is the highest such rate in the EU-27
Now that is shocking! :eek:
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