The unemployment rate in the European Union continued holding steady in December at 6.1%, unchanged from November, Eurostat reported Wednesday. Still, December’s rate is down year over year from December 2021’s jobless rate of 6.4%.

The lowest unemployment rates in December were in Czechia at 2.3% and Poland and Germany at 2.9% each. Spain and Greece posted the highest unemployment rates at 13.1% and 11.6%, respectively.

December unemployment by country:

• Austria, 5.0%
• Belgium, 5.5%
• Bulgaria, 4.0%
• Croatia, 6.4%
• Cyprus, 7.7%
• Czechia, 2.3%
• Denmark, 4.8%
• Estonia, 5.7%
• Finland, 6.8%
• France, 7.1%
• Germany, 2.9%
• Greece, 11.6%
• Hungary, 4.0%
• Iceland, 3.8%
• Ireland, 4.3%
• Italy, 7.8%
• Latvia, 7.1%
• Lithuania, 5.8%
• Luxembourg, 4.6%
• Malta, 3.2%
• Netherlands, 3.5%
• Norway , 3.4%
• Poland, 2.9%
• Portugal, 6.7%
• Romania, 5.6%
• Slovakia, 5.8%
• Slovenia, 4.0%
• Spain, 13.1%
• Sweden , 7.3%

Eurostat estimates there were 13.1 million unemployed persons in the EU in December.