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28 August 2016
Eurostat reports 15.4% of people unemployed in the European Union in the fourth quarter of last year had found employment in the first quarter of this year. Turkey posted the highest percentage of people moving from unemployment to employment at 32.3% among countries tracked where figures were available; it was followed by Switzerland at 32.2%.
Of those initially in unemployment in Europe in the fourth quarter, 65.7% remained unemployed in the first quarter and 18.9% moved toward economic inactivity.
Outflow from unemployment, Q42015 to Q1 2016
| Into employment in Q1 2016 | Remaining unemployment in Q1 2016 | Into inactivity in Q1 2016 | |
| Austria | 22.3% | 58.0% | 19.7% |
| Bulgaria | 3.2% | 82.3% | 14.5% |
| Croatia | 13.0% | 62.5% | 24.5% |
| Cyprus | 14.3% | 77.2% | 8.4% |
| Czech Republic | 18.6% | 69.0% | 12.5% |
| Denmark | 30.3% | 50.0% | 19.7% |
| Estonia | -- | 51.2% | -- |
| Finland | 18.1% | 58.5% | 23.4% |
| France | 19.9% | 63.0% | 17.1% |
| Greece | 4.3% | 94.6% | 1.1% |
| Hungary | 18.1% | 68.8% | 13.1% |
| Ireland | 12.5% | 69.0% | 18.5% |
| Italy | 12.8% | 50.0% | 37.1% |
| Latvia | 14.9% | 64.6% | 20.5% |
| Lithuania | 17.5% | 77.9% | -4.6% |
| Luxembourg | -- | 69.0% | -- |
| Malta | -3.1% | 78.4% | 18.5% |
| Netherlands | 17.8% | 53.9% | 28.4% |
| Norway | 23.4% | 43.5% | 33.2% |
| Poland | 10.3% | 65.8% | 24.0% |
| Portugal | 20.2% | 62.3% | 17.5% |
| Romania | 5.3% | 80.0% | 14.7% |
| Slovakia | 14.6% | 81.4% | 4.1% |
| Slovenia | 18.7% | 61.4% | 19.9% |
| Spain | 16.1% | 69.8% | 14.2% |
| Sweden | 22.5% | 63.0% | 14.5% |
| Switzerland | 32.2% | 54.4% | 13.4% |
| Turkey | 32.3% | 40.8% | 26.9% |
| United Kingdom | 19.5% | 65.3% | 15.2% |