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Eurostat: Latvia posts EU's eighth highest unemployment level in August
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The following EU member states had higher unemployment than Latvia in August 2016 - Spain (19.5%), Croatia (12.9%), Cyprus (12.1%), Italy (11.4%), Portugal (11%), France (10.5%) and Slovakia (9.5%).
The lowest unemployment rates in August 2016 were recorded in the Czech Republic (3.9%), Malta (4.2%) and Germany (4.2%).
The unemployment rate in Lithuania was 8.6% at the end of August.
The euro area seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 10.1% in August 2016, same as the previous month.
The EU-28 unemployment rate was 8.6% in August 2016, same as the previous month.
Eurostat estimates that 20.973 mln men and women in the EU-28, of whom 16.326 mln were in the euro area, were unemployed in August 2016.
Compared with July 2016, the number of persons unemployed decreased by 40,000 in the EU-28 and by 8,000 in the euro area. Compared with August 2015, unemployment fell by 1.587 mln in the EU-28 and by 875,000 in the euro area.
The data about unemployment in August 2016 were not available about Estonia, Greece, the United Kingdom and Hungary.
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