OECD Standardised Unemployment Rates (SURs) - Updated: January 2008

OECD Standardised Unemployment Rate falls to 5.5% in November 2007

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11/01/2008 - The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 5.5% in November 2007, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month and 0.4 percentage point lower than a year earlier.

In the Euro area, the standardised unemployment rate was 7.2% in November 2007, the same as the previous month and 0.7 percentage point lower than a year earlier. The United States' standardised unemployment rate for December 2007 was 5.0%, 0.3 percentage point higher than the previous month and 0.6 percentage point higher than a year earlier. For Japan, the rate was 3.8% in November 2007, 0.2 percentage point lower than the previous month and 0.2 percentage point lower than in November 2006...etc.

Standardised unemployment rates for the other OECD countries

The next publication date of the OECD's standardised unemployment rates will be on 8 February 2008.

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