Unemployment rate (2008)

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- Unemployment rate (2007) (compare)

Informations about Unemployment rate in 2008 year

	Afghanistan	40% (2005 est.)
	Albania	13% official rate, but may exceed 30% due to preponderance of near-subsistence farming (2007 est.)
	Algeria	14.1% (2007 est.)
	American Samoa	29.8% (2005)
	Andorra	0% (1996 est.)
	Angola	extensive unemployment and underemployment affecting more than half the population (2001 est.)
	Anguilla	8% (2002)
	Antigua and Barbuda	11% (2001 est.)
	Argentina	8.9% (2007 est.)
	Armenia	7.1% (2007 est.)
	Aruba	6.9% (2005 est.)
	Australia	4.4% (November 2007 est.)
	Austria	4.3% (2007 est.)
	Azerbaijan	8.5% official rate (2005 est.)
	Bahamas, The	7.6% (2006 est.)
	Bahrain	15% (2005 est.)
	Bangladesh	2.5% (includes underemployment) (2007 est.)
	Barbados	10.7% (2003 est.)
	Belarus	1.6% officially registered unemployed; large number of underemployed workers (2005)
	Belgium	7.6% (2007 est.)
	Belize	9.4% (2006)
	Benin	NA%
	Bermuda	2.1% (2004 est.)
	Bhutan	2.5% (2004)
	Bolivia	8% in urban areas; widespread underemployment (2006)
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	45.5% official rate; grey economy may reduce actual unemployment to 25-30% (31 December 2004 est.)
	Botswana	23.8% (2004)
	Brazil	9.8% (2007 est.)
	British Virgin Islands	3.6% (1997)
	Brunei	4% (2006)
	Bulgaria	8% (2007 est.)
	Burkina Faso	77%
	Burma	5.2% (2007 est.)
	Burundi	NA%
	Cambodia	2.5% (2000 est.)
	Cameroon	30% (2001 est.)
	Canada	5.9% (2007 est.)
	Cape Verde	21% (2000 est.)
	Cayman Islands	4.4% (2004)
	Central African Republic	8% (23% for Bangui) (2001 est.)
	Chad	NA%
	Chile	7% (2007 est.)
	China	4% unemployment in urban areas; substantial unemployment and underemployment in rural areas (2007 est.)
	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	60% (2000 est.)
	Colombia	10.6% (2007 est.)
	Comoros	20% (1996 est.)
	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	NA%
	Congo, Republic of the	NA%
	Cook Islands	13.1% (2005)
	Costa Rica	5.5% (2007 est.)
	Cote d'Ivoire	unemployment may have climbed to 40-50% as a result of the civil war
	Croatia	11.8% (2007 est.)
	Cuba	1.9% (2007 est.)
	Cyprus	area under government control: 3.8% (2005 est.) area administered by Turkish Cypriots: 5.6% (2004 est.) (2007 est.)
	Czech Republic	6.6% (2007 est.)
	Denmark	3.5% (2007 est.)
	Djibouti	59% in urban areas, 83% in rural areas (2007 est.)
	Dominica	23% (2000 est.)
	Dominican Republic	15.5% (2007 est.)
	Ecuador	9.8% (2007 est.)
	Egypt	10.1% (2007 est.)
	El Salvador	6.6% official rate; but the economy has much underemployment (2007 est.)
	Equatorial Guinea	30% (1998 est.)
	Eritrea	NA%
	Estonia	5.2% (2007 est.)
	Ethiopia	NA%
	European Union	8.5% (2006 est.)
	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	full employment; labor shortage (2001)
	Faroe Islands	2.1% (2006)
	Fiji	7.6% (1999)
	Finland	6.6% (2007 est.)
	France	8% (2007 est.)
	French Polynesia	11.7% (2005)
	Gabon	21% (2006 est.)
	Gambia, The	NA%
	Gaza Strip	34.8% (2006)
	Georgia	13.6% (2006 est.)
	Germany	9.1% note: this is the International Labor Organization's estimated rate for international comparisons; Germany's Federal Employment Office estimated a seasonally adjusted rate of 10.8% (2007 est.)
	Ghana	11% (2000 est.)
	Gibraltar	3% (2005 est.)
	Greece	8.4% (2007 est.)
	Greenland	9.3% (2005 est.)
	Grenada	12.5% (2000)
	Guam	11.4% (2002 est.)
	Guatemala	3.2% (2005 est.)
	Guernsey	0.9% (March 2006 est.)
	Guinea	NA%
	Guinea-Bissau	NA%
	Guyana	9.1% (understated) (2000)
	Haiti	widespread unemployment and underemployment; more than two-thirds of the labor force do not have formal jobs (2002 est.)
	Honduras	27.8% (2007 est.)
	Hong Kong	4.2% (2007 est.)
	Hungary	7.1% (2007 est.)
	Iceland	1% (2007 est.)
	India	7.2% (2007 est.)
	Indonesia	9.7% (2007 est.)
	Iran	11% according to the Iranian government (June 2007)
	Iraq	18% to 30% (2006 est.)
	Ireland	5% (2007 est.)
	Isle of Man	1.5% (December 2006 est.)
	Israel	7.6% (2007 est.)
	Italy	6.7% (2007 est.)
	Jamaica	10.2% (2007 est.)
	Japan	4% (2007 est.)
	Jersey	2.2% (2006 est.)
	Jordan	13.5% official rate; unofficial rate is approximately 30% (2007 est.)
	Kazakhstan	7.1% (2007 est.)
	Kenya	40% (2001 est.)
	Kiribati	2% official rate; underemployment 70% (1992 est.)
	Korea, North	NA%
	Korea, South	3.2% (2007 est.)
	Kosovo	50% (2007 est.)
	Kuwait	2.2% (2004 est.)
	Kyrgyzstan	18% (2004 est.)
	Laos	2.4% (2005 est.)
	Latvia	5.9% (2007 est.)
	Lebanon	20% (2006 est.)
	Lesotho	45% (2002)
	Liberia	85% (2003 est.)
	Libya	30% (2004 est.)
	Liechtenstein	1.3% (September 2002)
	Lithuania	3.2% note: based on survey data, official registered unemployment of 5.7% (2007 est.)
	Luxembourg	4.4% (2007 est.)
	Macau	3.1% (2006)
	Macedonia	35% (2007 est.)
	Malawi	NA%
	Malaysia	3.1% (2007 est.)
	Maldives	NEGL% (2003 est.)
	Mali	14.6% (2001 est.)
	Malta	6.8% (2005 est.)
	Marshall Islands	30.9% (2000 est.)
	Mauritania	20% (2004 est.)
	Mauritius	9.2% (2007 est.)
	Mayotte	25.4% (2005)
	Mexico	3.7% plus underemployment of perhaps 25% (2007 est.)
	Micronesia, Federated States of	22% (2000 est.)
	Moldova	2.1%; note - roughly 25% of working age Moldovans are employed abroad (2007 est.)
	Monaco	0% (2005)
	Mongolia	3.2% (2006)
	Montenegro	14.7% (2007 est.)
	Montserrat	6% (1998 est.)
	Morocco	15% (2007 est.)
	Mozambique	21% (1997 est.)
	Namibia	5.3% (2006 est.)
	Nauru	90% (2004 est.)
	Nepal	42% (2004 est.)
	Netherlands	4.5% (2007 est.)
	Netherlands Antilles	17% (2002 est.)
	New Caledonia	17.1% (2004)
	New Zealand	3.5% (2007 est.)
	Nicaragua	5.6% plus underemployment of 46.5% (2007 est.)
	Niger	NA%
	Nigeria	5.8% (2006 est.)
	Niue	12% (2001)
	Northern Mariana Islands	3.9% (2001)
	Norway	2.4% (2007 est.)
	Oman	15% (2004 est.)
	Pakistan	7.5% plus substantial underemployment (2007 est.)
	Palau	4.2% (2005 est.)
	Panama	7.2% (2007 est.)
	Papua New Guinea	1.9% up to 80% in urban areas (2004)
	Paraguay	11.4% (2007 est.)
	Peru	7.4% in metropolitan Lima; widespread underemployment (2007 est.)
	Philippines	7.3% (2007 est.)
	Poland	12.8% (2007 est.)
	Portugal	8% (2007 est.)
	Puerto Rico	12% (2002)
	Qatar	0.7% (2007 est.)
	Romania	4.5% (2007 est.)
	Russia	5.9% (November 2007 est.)
	Rwanda	NA%
	Saint Helena	14% (1998 est.)
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	4.5% (1997)
	Saint Lucia	20% (2003 est.)
	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	10.3% (1999)
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	15% (2001 est.)
	Samoa	NA%
	San Marino	3.8% (2004)
	Sao Tome and Principe	NA%
	Saudi Arabia	13% among Saudi males only (local bank estimate; some estimates range as high as 25%) (2004 est.)
	Senegal	48%; note - urban youth 45% (2001 est.)
	Serbia	18.8% (2007 est.)
	Seychelles	NA%
	Sierra Leone	NA%
	Singapore	1.7% (2007 est.)
	Slovakia	8.6% (2007 est.)
	Slovenia	4.6% (2007 est.)
	Solomon Islands	NA%
	Somalia	NA%
	South Africa	24.2% (2007 est.)
	Spain	7.6% (2007 est.)
	Sri Lanka	6.3% (2007 est.)
	Sudan	18.7% (2002 est.)
	Suriname	9.5% (2004)
	Swaziland	40% (2006 est.)
	Sweden	4.5% (2007 est.)
	Switzerland	3.1% (2007 est.)
	Syria	10% (2007 est.)
	Taiwan	3.9% (2007)
	Tajikistan	12% (2004 est.)
	Tanzania	NA%
	Thailand	1.7% (2007 est.)
	Timor-Leste	50% estimated; note - unemployment in urban areas reached 20%; data do not include underemployed (2001 est.)
	Togo	NA%
	Tokelau	NA%
	Tonga	13% (FY03/04 est.)
	Trinidad and Tobago	6% (2007 est.)
	Tunisia	13.9% (2007 est.)
	Turkey	9.7% plus underemployment of 4% (2007 est.)
	Turkmenistan	60% (2004 est.)
	Turks and Caicos Islands	10% (1997 est.)
	Tuvalu	NA%
	Uganda	NA%
	Ukraine	2.5% officially registered; large number of unregistered or underemployed workers; the International Labor Organization calculates that Ukraine's real unemployment level is nearly 7% (2007 est.)
	United Arab Emirates	2.4% (2001)
	United Kingdom	5.4% (2007 est.)
	United States	4.6% (2007 est.)
	Uruguay	9.2% (2007 est.)
	Uzbekistan	0.8% officially by the Ministry of Labor, plus another 20% underemployed (2007 est.)
	Vanuatu	1.7% (1999)
	Venezuela	9.1% (2007 est.)
	Vietnam	5.1% (2007 est.)
	Virgin Islands	6.2% (2004)
	Wallis and Futuna	15.2% (2003)
	West Bank	18.6% (2006)
	Western Sahara	NA%
	World	30% combined unemployment and underemployment in many non-industrialized countries; developed countries typically 4%-12% unemployment (2007 est.)
	Yemen	35% (2003 est.)
	Zambia	50% (2000 est.)
	Zimbabwe	80% (2005 est.)