The Greek government expects the jobless rate to ease to
12.6% in 2023 from 12.7% in 2022, with the economy seen growing
by 1.8%.
(Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou and Renee Maltezou; Editing by
Kim Coghill)
(Adds details on jobless rate)
ATHENS, March 2 (Reuters) - Greece's jobless rate eased
to 10.8% in January, down from an upwardly revised 12.4% in
December, data from statistics service ELSTAT showed on
Thursday.
Seasonally adjusted data showed 501,948 people were
officially unemployed, with those under the age of 24 the
hardest hit.
The reading was the lowest since December 2009 - at the
start of Greece's decade-long economic crisis - following the
revision of last month's figure. Unemployment peaked in the
summer of 2013 and has been falling steadily since.
Unemployment was wider spread among women than men, with
the rates at 13.9% and 8.3%, respectively.
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