The number of unemployed in Germany rose in December by 60,000 amid the global economic downturn, pushing the jobless rate up to 7.8 percent, official figures released on Tuesday showed.
The Federal Labor Office said the German unemployment rate grew by 0.2 percentage points from November. A total of 3.27 million people were without jobs in Germany at the end of last year, compared with 3.22 million people in November.
For the full-year of 2009, an average of 3.423 million Germans were out of work, an increase of 155,000 as compared with 2008.
The current jobless rate is close to the sensitive 8 percent level but less than expected.
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