February unemployment rate stands at 8.5%

Greece’s unemployment complaint stood astatine 8.5% successful February 2026, compared to a revised 9.2% successful February 2025, and a revised 7.9% successful January 2026.

The fig of unemployed radical stood astatine 410,506, a alteration of 26,664 compared to February 2025 (6.1%); but an summation of 32,345 compared to January 2026 (8.6%).

The unemployment complaint for women dropped to 11.3%, from 11.9% successful February 2025; arsenic it did for men, to 6.2%, from 7.1% from a year ago.

By property group, the unemployment complaint successful the 15-24 bracket edged down to 17.6%, from 17.8% successful February 2025; and successful the 25-74 property group, it dipped to 8% from 8.8%.

According to the workforce survey by ELSTAT, the fig of employed radical stood astatine 4,412,218, an summation of 118,997 compared to February 2025 (2.8%), and an summation of 8,870 compared to January 2026 (0.2%).

People under 75 years aged who are not included successful the labour unit – neither working nor looking for work – amounted to 2,906,805 successful February, up by 121,794 from February 2025 (4%), but down by 45,511 compared to January 2026 (1.5%).