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

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

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13/05/2008 -  The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 5.5% in March 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 March 2008, the same as the previous month and 0.4 percentage point lower than a year earlier. The United States' standardised unemployment rate for April 2008 was 5.0%, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month and 0.5 percentage point higher than a year earlier. For Japan, the rate was 3.8% in March 2008, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month and 0.2 percentage point lower than in March 2007...etc.

Standardised unemployment rates for OECD countries

The next publication date of the OECD's standardised unemployment rates will be on 9 June 2008.

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