Greek unemployment rose slightly to 7.8 percent of the workforce in November 2008, from 7.6 percent in November 2007, the National Statistics Service said on Thursday.
The statistics service said in its monthly report that the number of employed people totaled 4,553,911 in November, while the number of unemployed people was 384,988.
Western Macedonia, Western Greece and Thessaly recorded the highest unemployment rates in the country, while Southern Aegean stayed at the lowest level.
Unemployment among men was 5.2 percent, while that among women was 11.6 percent. The rate of unemployment among youths at ages 15 to 24 stood at 22.4 percent, Xinhua reported.
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