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

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

 

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11/04/2008 - The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 5.5% in February 2008, the same as the previous month and 0.2 percentage point lower than a year earlier.


 In the Euro area, the standardised unemployment rate was 7.1% in February 2008, the same as the previous month and 0.5 percentage point lower than a year earlier. The United States' standardised unemployment rate for March 2008 was 5.1%, 0.3 percentage point higher than the previous month and 0.7 percentage point higher than a year earlier. For Japan, the rate was 3.9% in February 2008, 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous month but 0.1 percentage point lower than in February 2007...etc.

 

Standardised unemployment rates for OECD countries

 

The next publication date of the OECD's standardised unemployment rates will be on 13 May 2008.

 

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