By Jan Strupczewski

BRUSSELS, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The European Union's statistics office Eurostat

released the following data on Tuesday on unemployment in the 17 countries

sharing the euro and the 28 members

of the European Union:

Unemployment Rates (%)

August 2012 May 2013 June 2013 July 2013 Aug 2013

EA17 11.5 12.1 12.1 12.0 12.0

EU28 10.6 10.9 10.9 10.9 10.9