The Dutch unemployment rate according to European calculations is 5.1%, the second lowest in the EU, behind Austria (4.1%), the Eurostat statistics office said on Monday.

The average unemployment rate throughout the EU is 11.1% – or 17.5 million people. Spain has the highest jobless total at nearly 25% while the Greek rate rose to almost 22% over the past year, Eurostat says.
In terms of youth unemployment, the Netherlands is third in the Eurostat rankings. Some 9.2% of the under-25s in Holland are without work, compared with 7.9% in Germany and 8.3% in Austria. In Spain and Greece, 52% of youngsters are unemployed.
The official Dutch employment rate is 6.2%.