OECD Standardised Unemployment Rates (SURs) - Updated: March 2007

OECD Standardised Unemployment Rate remained at 5.8% in January 2007

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12/03/07 - The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area remained at 5.8% in January 2007, the same as the previous month but 0.5 percentage point lower than a year earlier.

 In the Euro area, the standardised unemployment rate was 7.4% in January 2007, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month and 0.9 percentage point lower than a year earlier. The United States' standardised unemployment rate for February 2007 was 4.5%, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month and 0.3 percentage point lower than a year earlier. For Japan, the rate was 4.0% in January 2007, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month and 0.5 percentage point lower than in January 2006.

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Standardised unemployment rates for the other OECD countries

The next publication date of the OECD's standardised unemployment rates will be on 6 April 2007.

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