Greece's 3Q unemployment jumps to 9.3 percent

Greece's unemployment rate in the third quarter of 2009 jumped to a four-year high of 9.3 percent, the national statistics service said Thursday.

The July-September figure for last year was 7.2 percent. In the second quarter of 2009, unemployment stood at 8.9 percent.

A statistics service announcement said the third-quarter unemployment figure for women was 13.1 percent, almost double the 6.6 percent for male workers. Per age group, the highest rate was among young people aged 15-29, at 18.5 percent.