17.9% of Greeks, twice as many as the level before the crisis, does not have enough money to purchase food, something not observed, even in countries with much lower per capita GDP, like Brazil, or China.

Eurostat released its unemployment update, according to which unemployment in Greece in November was at 28%, up by 0.3% from the month before. That raises the actual number of unemployed citizens to 1.382 million.

The jobless rate in Greece has hit a new high with some 28% of the working age population out of work as of November 2013, according to the latest government figures.