Unemployment Rates Around The World

Most of the world’s advanced economies have taken a hit to their labor force in the form of lost jobs during the recession.

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Virtually all of the worlds advanced economies have suffered some effects from the recession. Though unemployment is a problem all over the world, some countries have suffered a worse rate of unemployment than others. People who are under 16, are in the armed forces and people who are currently incarcerated are not considered unemployed because they are not considerate to be a part of the work force. In addition, people who dont have jobs but who have not been looking for work within the last four weeks are not considered to be unemployed.

Canada and the United States have both experienced massive job losses during the recession. The United States now has an unemployment rate of 9.5 percent and Canada has an unemployment rate of 8.4 percent.

Europe has also been hard hit by the recession, with some countries faring better than others in terms of unemployment. In Austria, there is 4.5 percent unemployment. In Belgium, there is 7.4 percent unemployment. The unemployment rate of Cyprus is 3.8 percent. The Czech Republic has an unemployment rate of 7.9 percent. Denmark has a 2.9 percent unemployment rate. Finland has an 8.8 percent unemployment rate.

France has an 8.8 percent unemployment rate. Germanys unemployment rate is 8.3 percent. Greece has a 9.1 percent unemployment rate. Iceland also has a 9.1 percent unemployment rate. Ireland has a high European employment rate with 11.8 percent. In Italy, the unemployment rate is 7.4 percent.

In Luxembourg, the unemployment rate is 6.1 percent. Unemployment in Malta is 6.4 percent. The Netherlands has a 4.4 unemployment rate. In Norway, the unemployment rate is 3.1 percent. Portugals unemployment rate is 8.9 percent. Unemployment in San Marino is 2.8 percent. Unemployment in Slovakia is 10.9 percent. In Slovenia, the unemployment rate is 8.8 percent. Spain has an extraordinarily high unemployment rate at 18.7 percent. Sweden has an unemployment rate of 8.9 percent. Switzerland maintains a low rate of unemployment at 3.5 percent. Israel has an unemployment rate of 7.6 percent.

Much of Asia has maintained a low unemployment rate despite the recession. Hong Kongs rate of unemployment is 5.3 percent. In Japan, the unemployment rate is 5.2 percent. In Singapore, the unemployment rate is a low 3.2 percent. South Korea has an unemployment rate of 3.9 percent. The unemployment rate in Taiwan is 5.7 percent. The Australian unemployment rate is 5.7 percent. New Zealand has an unemployment rate of 5 percent.

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moses mccall

The graphic should be retitled unemployment around 1st world countries. What about unemployment rate in countries in Latin America or Africa? Are they not affected?
Kusuma Kallur Chandrashekar

India has the second largest population and is eighth largest country in the world. How come it’s not there? Doesn’t give the complete picture. How are the countries decided? Maybe the title should be changed to “Unemployment rate in few selected countries”
Dalton

Because perhaps these countries don’t keep track of the unemployment rate.

I think in the USA this is skewed because the unemployment rate is based on people collecting unemployment, not the actual number of unemployed, which is much higher.
CES

These are publicly released figures. China and India so not release unemployment figures due to various reasons. Most notable of which is that its difficult to simply figure out the unemployment due to the size of those countries
Joe Bloggs

Why isn’t Molvania shown here? I am sick of this obvious conspiracy against my rapidly developing country. Clearly this map should be entitled “Nobody cares about India or Africa, but mostly just India”.
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I believe it’s only showing developed countries. This is fairly out of date anyway, I know Australia has a higher figure than that.
@Kusuma Kallur

“Most of the worlds advanced economies have taken a hit to their labor force in the form of lost jobs during the recession.”

If you read the description under the title you can see it says ‘advanced economies’. China, Brazil, and Mexico (and India) are not included since they are still considered semi-peripheral nations whose economies are moving towards that of advanced core nations. Though you may be able to dispute a few of the European nations listed they are all members of the E.U which, as one economic body, is the second largest in the world.

That point aside; in nations like India and China estimating the unemployment is a much harder task given the size of the population and obvious census issues related to their respective governments.
hammer

thats funny . i lost my job to mexico and i dont see mexico on the map . whats up with that?
Tyler Jordan

Maybe because its “advanced economies”? Same reason why China isn’t on there, there is no reason to compare apples to oranges.
Jack

Kudos on the nice use of Officina.
indiaisnotworthit

India is not worth mentioning.
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Ed

Yeah, like um, England. Curious omission..
Mike

What standards were used to determine “unemployment?” The definition is different in every country.

And this doesn’t actually show… well… anything. If you want to show how the economy is taking a hit, show the change in unemployment from a year ago today.
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or there is no unemployment in China and Indea. all the jobs from the red shaded countries are in the green shaded countries )
James

This is a fairly big picture type of thing too, if you break down countries by region you’ll find the national statistics are off. For example Canada is very large land wise with most of its population density on the east and west coasts. In the middle, the province of Saskatchewan for example was in the middle of an economic boom when the world financial crisis started. The unemployment rate in Saskatchewan as of June 2009 was only 3.9%
Cactus Joe

Is Africa not part of the world? Or South America?

Rather call this selecive data to make a pretty picture.
John Davis

Wow, why am I not surprised!

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vicky

This is worest statis map ever!
Where is china, india, russia!
also why some of poor European country in there.
Not a good explanation.
Ben

The part I don’t understand is why the UK’s figures aren’t listed.
The country is colored, but there’s no flag associated with it, and no further data provided.
Ram

The UK is not an advanced economy? hmmm i didn’t know that, british people will be surprised.

Kusur from your name i am guessing that you are from a southern part in india. It is sorta easy for south indian people to assume that india is becoming well developed, but you should really visit some northern states to really see what kind of state india is still in.
Jeremy

I dont see England/ UK listed
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Wow this is amazing. Although, http://HowHero.com did not get hit too badly.
deep

Spain is totally screwed
asdvawev

Hong Kong is WAY too big on the map
Ricardo

How is it that the author failed to include info for the United Kingdom? He can get statistics for San Marino and Malta, but not England?
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This chart is truly meaningless.

You’re displaying indiscernible shades of pink to depict what..? The impact of the recession on employment? If that’s the case, then you should be displaying the INCREASE in unemployment, with significantly contrasting colours/patterns to differentiate.

I’d suggest an urgent dose of Tufte
Carl

Data are skewed by not counting long term unemployed and even ‘mid’ term unemployed (ie cut-off at ‘only’ 4 weeks). Implies US definition of term unemployment. Europe’s figures are actually 1.5 – 2 % higher on average if included.
Chandan

There is no information about world’s two most populated country… India and China. The data is not reliable.
Gary

Interesting numbers and depiction… I do find one thing curious though; Great Britain, while colored and on the map, has no flag shown and is not in the table of numbers, while Ireland is. Being a Yank, I merely find the lack curious. Market watch gives the UK unemployment rate, March through May this year, as rising to 7.6%, credibly in line with the French, German and Italian rates against past performance e.g, the differences seem congruent.
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ajit

india is over rated
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@Dalton

You are completely incorrect as to how the US unemployment is calculated. The BIS uses a demographically representative, regional statistical analysis.

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The WTO or some of their sister organizations might have better data on this subject.
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Unemployment is calculated different in different countries. American economists don’t take China’s unemployment rates seriously, therefore, they probably didn’t include it on this map. America and Europe defines unemployed as those persons age 15 (America 16) to 74 who are not working, have looked for work in the last four weeks, and ready to start work within two weeks. Where as in Japan, the unemployment number is people who are actively looking for a job in the week that they pick. That is why Japan has notoriously low unemployment rates. It is more difficult to fit in the Japanese definition of “unemployed.”

Keep in mind different countries have different definitions for “unemployed.”

However, CIA factbook might have may have adjusted the rates to conform with the American definition in the top right.
noname

India may not be worth mentioning right now, but it will be a different story in 20 years time.

Large portion of the worlds economy will be driven by india / china
OneCynicalBastard

Wonder why Mexico wasn’t tallied? Or if it was, and the fact that they have much lower unemployment would just piss a lot of us who were against NAFTA in the first place off.
Jeff

These numbers are meaningless as each country uses a completely different methodology for reporting unemployment. in Canada and the US for instance the homeless aren’t counted as unemployed. In Canada you are only unemployed if you are actively looking for a job and the statistics really only count those who are collecting EI. Canada does not include part time students as unemployed, if you take a language class to brush up on french once a week you are considered employed.
Jono

Where’s UK’s percentage?

Hmmm…
Hallywood

Interesting read.
GuilleX

Great, no south america? so THAT’S “the world” for all of you?

Just great, i feel very “globalyzed”
Dave

How come most of them little European countries have less unemployment than the U.S. of A? Ain’t them all s’posed ta be commie-nists or somethin’?
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Sanjay Jain

Would be nice to see how this compares with the ‘not so developed’ world – specifically with the BRIC, and Africa.
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wow thats crazy so what now, US is like the third highest unemployment? rediculous, the countrie is still younge though, i hope to see some change real soon, i dont want to go into this straight out of school.
Digby

At least the guy tried.
We all know it is hard as different countries have different methods.
And you should all know that in countries like India and China and in Africa etc , most people are still on farms. So are they employed or unemployed ?
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I want to know what the unemployment rate for pakistan is!
JoneyJones

cannot see % for the UK.

Have I missed something ?
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Where Africa is?
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Us small peolpe are the reason companies make money. If the companies can not make the work place safe for everyone and let them do there job for quality products then I feel things will get worse for everyone. Whenemployees are getting hurt on the job part of it is the companies fault and the other is the person who got hurt. I say this because most injurys are do to poor conditions at the work place. Companies pass the buck down to the little guys. And that is sad why because it is only the little guys job to report anything that is a hasard to others or might be a hazard to others. So many companies are getting sued for someone elses injuries that could have been provented. I strongly think and believe companies should get medical backgrounds on all their employees. find jobs with in the company they can do that will not effect loosing their jobsor getting them hurt. There are so many jobs that can be found in all companies for all types of people. Companies just want to hire people to do a job they need training for instead of keeping ones who are more than caipable to do the job. If one is about to retire then let that one train their replacement. With more and more people coming into the workforce they the companies need to find more effiecent ways to hire more up grade their companies. Being safe and better quality of work let the employees do there job and do it right. Instead of worring about quantity instead of quality. Big shots in the company need to listen and take carefuly what the little guys says. Because what they say could save them more money then sending alot more money
less fines to pay less insurance to pay out for workmenscomp. Awhole less lawsuits as well. They need to put their greed out to their fellow man because with out us little guys there would be no big guys to work for. You cannot rule without anyone to follow.