The data displays the unemployment rate in Greece from 2007 to 2017. In 2017, the unemployment rate in Greece was around 21.41%. Today, Greece reports the highest unemployment rate of all EU states.
Greece's financial situation Greece is a developed country with a high-income economy, whose primary industry revolves around tourism and shipping. Agriculture also plays an important role for the country’s economy, more specifically for the EU. Greece had experienced large amounts of economic growth from the 1950s to the 1970s, however was economically devastated by the Great Recession in 2009 as well its own government debt crisis.
2007 | 8.4 |
2008 | 7.76 |
2009 | 9.62 |
2010 | 12.71 |
2011 | 17.86 |
2012 | 24.44 |
2013 | 27.47 |
2014 | 26.49 |
2015 | 24.9 |
2016 | 23.54 |
2017 | 21.41 |