Greek unemployment rate was 27.3% in April this year, unchanged from March, but slightly down from 27.5% in April 2013, with the number of unemployed people reaching 1,303,454 and the unemployment rate among young people up to 24 years old- at 56.3%.

The statistics service published a report stating that the number of unemployed people fell by 26,944 in April compared with April 2013 (a decline of 2.0%) and by 1,266 compared with March 2014 (a decline of 0.1%).

Greece’s financially non-active population totalled 3,370,392, up by 17,095 compared with April 2013. The unemployment rate among women was 30.7% in April, which decreased compared with April 2013 (31.5%), while the rate among men rose to 24.6% from 24.4% over the same periods, respectively.

Unemployment mostly hit the 15-24 age group (56.3% from 58.9% in April 2013), the 25-34 age group (36.1% from 35.7%), the 35-44 age group (24.8% from 23.7%), the 45-54 age group (20.4 % from 20.8 %), the 55-64 age group (17.3 % from 16.1 %) and the 65-74 age group (8.6 % from 10 %).

Macedonia-Thrace (28.6 %) and Epirus-Western Macedonia (28.6 %) are the region with the highest unemployment rates among the country’s regions, followed by Attica (28.1 %), the Peloponese-Western Greece-Ionian Islands (26.4 %), Thessaly-Central Greece (26.2 %), Aegean (22.5 %) and Crete (21.9 %).