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OECD Standardised Unemployment Rate at 5.7% in May 2008
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11/07/2008 - The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 5.7% in May 2008, 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous month and 0.1 percentage point higher than a year earlier.
In the Euro area, the standardised unemployment rate was 7.2% in May 2008, the same as the previous month and 0.3 percentage point lower than a year earlier. For the United States the standardised unemployment rate for June 2008 was 5.5%, the same as the previous month and 0.9 percentage point higher than a year earlier. For Japan, the rate was 4.0% in May 2008, the same as the previous month and 0.2 percentage point higher than in May 2007...etc.
Standardised unemployment rates for OECD countries
The next publication date of the OECD's standardised unemployment rates will be on 8 September 2008.
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For further information, journalists are invited to contact the OECD's Media Relations Division on (33) 1 45 24 97 00 or news.contact@oecd.org; others should contact the Statistics Directorate on stat.contact@oecd.org.
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