Eurostat news release 72/2017 - 27 April 2017
Unemployment rates in the EU regions ranged from 2.1% to 31.3%
Unemployment rates fell in 8 out of 10 EU regions
More than 80% of the NUTS 2 regions of the European Union (EU) saw their unemployment rate fall in 2016
compared with 2015, and around 60% recorded a decrease of at least 0.5 percentage points. However, regional
unemployment rates continued to vary widely across the EU regions, with the lowest rates recorded in
Niederbayern (2.1%) in Germany and Praha (2.2%) in the Czech Republic, followed by the German regions of
Oberbayern (2.4%), Mittelfranken and Unterfranken (both 2.5%) and Tübingen (2.6%).
At the opposite end of
the scale, the highest unemployment rates were registered in Dytiki Makedonia (31.3%) in Greece, Ciudad
Autónoma de Melilla (30.8%) in Spain, Dytiki Ellada (29.8%) in Greece, Andalucía (28.9%) and Extremadura
(27.5%) in Spain and Mayotte (27.1%), an overseas region of France.
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