{"id":509193,"date":"2026-04-02T16:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509193\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T16:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:07:24","slug":"february-unemployment-rate-stands-at-8-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509193\/","title":{"rendered":"February unemployment rate stands at 8.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greece\u2019s unemployment rate stood at 8.5% in February 2026, compared to a revised 9.2% in February 2025, and a revised 7.9% in January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The number of unemployed people stood at 410,506, a decrease of 26,664 compared to February 2025 (6.1%); but an increase of 32,345 compared to January 2026 (8.6%).<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate for women dropped to 11.3%, from 11.9% in February 2025; as it did for men, to 6.2%, from 7.1% from a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>By age group, the unemployment rate in the 15-24 bracket edged down to 17.6%, from 17.8% in February 2025; and in the 25-74 age group, it dipped to 8% from 8.8%.<\/p>\n<p>According to the workforce survey by ELSTAT, the number of employed people stood at 4,412,218, an increase of 118,997 compared to February 2025 (2.8%), and an increase of 8,870 compared to January 2026 (0.2%).<\/p>\n<p>People under 75 years old who are not included in the labor force \u2013 neither working nor looking for work \u2013 amounted to 2,906,805 in February, up by 121,794 from February 2025 (4%), but down by 45,511 compared to January 2026 (1.5%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greece\u2019s unemployment rate stood at 8.5% in February 2026, compared to a revised 9.2% in February 2025, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,2195,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-509193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-employment","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}