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

OECD Standardised Unemployment Rate Stable at 5.8% in July 2008

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08/09/2008 - The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 5.8% in July 2008, the same as the previous month and 0.2 percentage point higher than a year earlier.
In the Euro area, the standardised unemployment rate was 7.3% in July 2008, the same as the previous month and 0.1 percentage point lower than a year earlier. For the United States the standardised unemployment rate for August 2008 was 6.1%, 0.4 percentage point higher than the previous month and 1.4 percentage points higher than a year earlier. For Japan, the rate was 4.0% in July 2008, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month but 0.4 percentage point higher than in July 2007...etc.

Standardised unemployment rates for OECD countries

The next publication date of the OECD's standardised unemployment rates will be on 10 October 2008.

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