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

OECD Standardised Unemployment Rate falls to 5.8% in November 2006

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12/01/07 - The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area(1) fell to 5.8% in November 2006, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month and 0.7 percentage point lower than a year earlier.
In the Euro area(2), the standardised unemployment rate was 7.6% in November 2006, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month and 0.8 percentage point lower than a year earlier. The United States’ standardised unemployment rate for December 2006 remained at 4.5%, 0.4 percentage point lower than a year earlier. For Japan, the rate fell to 4.0% in November 2006, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month and 0.6 percentage point lower than in November 2005...etc.

Standardised unemployment rates for the other OECD countries

The next publication date of the OECD's standardised unemployment rates will be on 
9 February 2006.

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