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Unemployment rate in Greece

How hard is it to have a job there?

Greece's unemployment rate is 8.54 % — #97 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

8.54%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

Source: World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt)

Unemployment rate in Greece over time

27.69 %17.68 %7.66 %27.69 % · 20137.66 % · 20082000: 11.35 %2001: 10.76 %2002: 10.35 %2003: 9.84 %2004: 10.63 %2005: 10.07 %2006: 8.91 %2007: 8.35 %2008: 7.66 %2009: 9.55 %2010: 12.72 %2011: 17.97 %2012: 24.73 %2013: 27.69 %2014: 26.71 %2015: 24.98 %2016: 23.51 %2017: 21.41 %2018: 19.18 %2019: 17.05 %2020: 15.90 %2021: 14.66 %2022: 12.43 %2023: 11.02 %2024: 10.02 %2025: 8.54 %2000201220258.54 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#97 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
22 %
27 of 124 countries
Latest move
▼ 1.48 pp
since 2024
Below its peak
19.15 pp
peak 27.69 % in 2013
Full series
▼ 2.81 pp
since 2000

In Europe: #30 of 36vs median 5.25 %: +3.28 pp (worse)

Among 124 countries

6 of 124 countries between 0.78 % and 1.53 %6 of 124 countries between 1.53 % and 2.28 %12 of 124 countries between 2.28 % and 3.03 %16 of 124 countries between 3.03 % and 3.78 %7 of 124 countries between 3.78 % and 4.53 %15 of 124 countries between 4.53 % and 5.28 %14 of 124 countries between 5.28 % and 6.02 %7 of 124 countries between 6.02 % and 6.77 %6 of 124 countries between 6.77 % and 7.52 %2 of 124 countries between 7.52 % and 8.27 %10 of 124 countries between 8.27 % and 9.02 %3 of 124 countries between 9.02 % and 9.77 %3 of 124 countries between 9.77 % and 10.52 %2 of 124 countries between 10.52 % and 11.27 %3 of 124 countries between 11.27 % and 12.02 %1 of 124 countries between 12.02 % and 12.77 %1 of 124 countries between 12.77 % and 13.51 %2 of 124 countries between 13.51 % and 14.26 %1 of 124 countries between 14.26 % and 15.01 %2 of 124 countries between 15.01 % and 15.76 %1 of 124 countries between 16.51 % and 17.26 %4 of 124 countries between 18.01 % and 18.76 %median 5.23 %Greece: ahead of 22 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentGreece 8.54 %0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Greece is ahead of 22 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Greece
95 Panama8.36 %−0.18 pp
96 Turkey8.52 %−0.02 pp
97 Greece8.54 %—
98 Sweden8.69 %+0.15 pp
99 Belize8.86 %+0.32 pp

Unemployment, share of the labour force (World Bank / ILO estimate).

How to read this figure

Share of the labour force without work but actively seeking it (World Bank / ILO harmonised estimate). People outside the labour force — students, carers, the discouraged — are not counted.

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