Employment and Labour Markets: Key Tables from OECD
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Employment and labour markets: Key tables from OECD - ISSN 2075-2342 - © OECD 2009
| Unemployment rate | |||||||||
| % of labour force | |||||||||
2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | ||
Australia | 6.8 | 6.5 | 6.0 | 5.5 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 4.3 | |
Austria | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 3.9 | |
Belgium | 6.2 | 6.9 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 6.4 | |
Canada | 7.3 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 6.3 | 6.1 | 6.2 | |
Czech Republic | 8.2 | 7.3 | 7.8 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 7.2 | 5.4 | 4.4 | |
Denmark | 4.2 | 4.3 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 4.9 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.1 | |
Finland | 9.1 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 8.9 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 6.9 | 6.3 | |
France | 8.8 | 8.9 | 8.5 | 8.9 | 8.9 | 8.8 | 8.0 | 7.4 | |
Germany | 7.9 | 8.7 | 9.4 | 10.4 | 11.3 | 10.4 | 8.7 | 7.6 | |
Greece | 10.4 | 10.1 | 9.5 | 10.4 | 9.8 | 8.9 | 8.2 | 7.3 | |
Hungary | 5.7 | 5.8 | 5.9 | 6.1 | 7.2 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.9 | |
Iceland | 2.3 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 3.0 | |
Ireland | 3.7 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 5.3 | |
Italy | 9.6 | 9.1 | 8.7 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 6.9 | 6.2 | 6.8 | |
Japan | 5.2 | 5.6 | 5.4 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.2 | |
Korea | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.3 | |
Luxembourg | 1.8 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 5.0 | |
Mexico | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.7 | |
Netherlands | 2.5 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.0 | |
New Zealand | 5.4 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 4.2 | |
Norway | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 2.6 | 2.6 | |
Poland | 18.6 | 20.3 | 20.0 | 19.3 | 18.0 | 14.0 | 9.7 | 7.2 | |
Portugal | 4.3 | 5.4 | 6.8 | 7.0 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 8.1 | |
Slovak Republic | 19.3 | 18.6 | 17.6 | 18.2 | 16.2 | 13.3 | 11.0 | 9.6 | |
Spain | 10.5 | 11.4 | 11.4 | 11.0 | 9.2 | 8.6 | 8.3 | 11.4 | |
Sweden | 5.1 | 5.3 | 5.8 | 6.6 | 7.8 | 7.1 | 6.2 | 6.2 | |
Switzerland | 2.5 | 3.0 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 3.4 | |
Turkey | 8.6 | 10.6 | 10.8 | 10.6 | 10.5 | 10.1 | 10.5 | 11.2 | |
United Kingdom | 4.8 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 5.4 | 5.3 | 5.4 | |
United States | 4.8 | 5.9 | 6.1 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 5.8 | |
OECD-Total | 6.4 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 6.7 | 6.2 | 5.7 | 6.0 | |
| Last updated: 27 August 2009 | |||||||||
| Source: Labour market statistics: Labour force statistics by sex and age: indicators, OECD Employment and Labour Market Statistics (database) | |||||||||