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Table 5.A - Unemployment rate

 

        Unemployment rate (%)
Country or area
Year
W
M
     
Africa
Algeria a
2000
29.7
33.9
Botswana
2000
17.2
14.7
Egypt
2002
27.7
5.1
Mauritius a
2002
12.0
8.5
Morocco
2002
12.5
11.6
Namibia
2000
39.0
28.3
Latin America/Caribbean
Antigua and Barbuda
1991
5.6
6.4
Argentina
2002
18.8
20.2
Aruba
1994
7.9
5.4
Bahamas
1998
9.6
5.9
Barbados
2001
11.9
8.0
Belize
1999
20.3
9.0
Bolivia b
2000
8.9
6.2
Brazil c
2001
11.9
7.5
Chile
2002
8.5
7.5
Colombia
2002
8.4
7.3
Costa Rica
2001
7.6
5.2
Dominica
1997
27.2
19.6
Dominican Republic a
1997
28.6
9.5
Ecuador
2002
14.0
6.0
El Salvador
2002
3.5
8.1
French Guiana
1991
11.6
8.2
Grenada
1996
24.8
10.3
Guatemala
2002
2.3
1.6
Guyana
1992
18.1
8.4
Honduras
2001
4.8
4.0
Jamaica
1999
22.3
10.3
Mexico
2002
2.0
1.9
Netherlands Antilles d
2000
16.2
12.0
Nicaragua
1998
14.5
8.8
Panama
1999
16.9
8.9
Paraguay b
1996
8.6
7.8
Peru b
2001
8.7
7.2
Puerto Rico e
2002
10.9
13.2
Saint Lucia
1997
23.8
17.7
St. Vincent/Grenadines
1991
22.1
18.4
Suriname
1999
20.0
10.0
Trinidad and Tobago
2001
14.4
8.6
Uruguay b
2001
19.7
11.5
Venezuela
2002
18.1
14.3
Asia
Armenia b
1997
34.4
38.0
Azerbaijan
2002
1.5
1.2
Bangladesh
2001
3.3
3.2
Cambodia
2001
2.2
1.5
China a b f
1994
1.1
0.8
China, Hong Kong SAR
2002
6.0
8.4
China, Macao SAR
2002
4.5
7.9
Cyprus
2002
4.2
2.6
Georgia
2002
10.7
13.7
Indonesia
1996
5.1
3.3
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
2002
4.1
8.2
Israel g
2002
10.6
10.1
Mongolia
2001
5.1
4.2
Occupied Palestinian Territory
2002
17.1
33.5
Pakistan
2000
17.3
6.1
Philippines
2001
10.3
9.4
Republic of Korea
2002
2.5
3.5
Saudi Arabia
2001
9.1
3.9
Singapore
2002
5.0
5.4
Sri Lanka h
2002
12.8
8.7
Syrian Arab Republic
2002
24.1
8.3
Tajikistan
1997
2.9
2.4
Thailand
2001
2.5
2.7
Turkey
2002
9.9
10.9
United Arab Emirates
2000
2.6
2.2
Uzbekistan
1995
0.5
0.3
Yemen
1999
8.2
12.5
Developed regions
Albania
2002
19.1
13.6
Australia
2002
6.1
6.5
Austria
2002
3.9
4.1
Belarus
2002
3.5
2.3
Belgium
2002
8.7
6.7
Bulgaria
2002
16.9
18.3
Canada
2002
7.1
8.1
Croatia
2002
16.6
13.4
Czech Republic
2002
9.0
5.9
Denmark
2002
5.1
4.4
Estonia
2002
9.7
10.8
Finland
2002
9.1
9.1
France
2002
10.1
7.9
Germany
2002
8.5
8.9
Greece
2002
14.6
6.2
Hungary
2002
5.4
6.1
Iceland
2002
2.9
3.6
Ireland
2001
3.5
3.8
Italy
2002
12.2
6.9
Japan
2002
5.1
5.5
Latvia
2002
11.0
12.9
Lithuania
2002
12.9
14.6
Malta
2002
8.2
6.2
Netherlands
2001
3.4
2.2
New Zealand
2002
5.4
5.1
Norway
2002
3.6
4.1
Poland
2002
20.9
19.1
Portugal
2002
6.1
4.2
Republic of Moldova
2002
5.5
8.1
Romania
2002
7.7
8.9
Russian Federation
1999
13.1
13.6
San Marino a
2002
6.3
1.6
Serbia and Montenegro
2002
15.8
12.4
Slovakia i
2002
18.7
18.4
Slovenia
2002
6.3
5.7
Spain
2002
16.4
8.1
Sweden
2002
3.6
4.4
Switzerland
2002
3.1
2.8
The FYR of Macedonia
2002
32.3
31.7
Ukraine
2002
10.0
10.3
United Kingdom
2002
4.4
5.6
United States
2002
5.6
5.9

 

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Source:

United Nations Statistics Division Social Indicators website (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/social/unempl.htm, accessed on 9 January 2004).

Footnotes:

a Official estimates.
b Urban areas only.
c Excluding the rural population of Rondonia, Acre, Amazonas, Roraima, Par and Amap.
d Curacao only.
e Excluding persons tempoparily laid off.
 fFor statistical purposes, data for China do not include Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative  Regions.
g Including workers from Judea, Samaria and Gaza areas.
h Excluding Northern and Eastern provinces.
i Excluding persons on child-care leave.


Technical notes:

Table 5.A presents statistics on the unemployment rate---i.e. the proportion of the labour force that is unemployed. The unemployed are persons who are currently without work, who are seeking or have sought work recently, and who are currently available for work. The base for these statistics is the labour force (the economically active portion of the population), not the total population.