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

OECD Standardised Unemployment Rate remains stable at 5.5% in April 2008

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09/06/2008 -  The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 5.5% in April 2008, the same as the previous month and 0.1 percentage point lower than a year earlier.

In the Euro area, the standardised unemployment rate was 7.1% in April 2008, the same as the previous month and 0.4 percentage point lower than a year earlier. For the United States the standardised unemployment rate for May 2008 was 5.5%, 0.5 percentage point higher than the previous month and 1.0 percentage point higher than a year earlier. For Japan, the rate was 4.0% in April 2008, 0.2 percentage point higher than the previous month and 0.1 percentage point higher than in April 2007...etc.

Standardised unemployment rates for OECD countries

The next publication date of the OECD's standardised unemployment rates will be on 11 July 2008.

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