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Country
Unemployment rate (%)
Afghanistan 40% (2005 est.)
Albania 13.2% official rate, but may exceed 30% due to preponderance of near-subsistence farming (2007 est.)
Algeria 11.8% (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 8.5% (2007 est.)
Armenia 7.1% (2007 est.)
Aruba 6.9% (2005 est.)
Australia 4.4% (2007 est.)
Austria 4.4% (2007 est.)
Azerbaijan 1% official rate (2007 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 7.5% (2007 est.)
Belize 9.4% (2006)
Benin NA%
Bermuda 2.1% (2004 est.)
Bhutan 2.5% (2004)
Bolivia 7.5% in urban areas; widespread underemployment (2007 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 45.5% official rate; grey economy may reduce actual unemployment to 25-30% (31 December 2004 est.)
Botswana 7.5% (2007 est.)
Brazil 9.3% (2007 est.)
British Virgin Islands 3.6% (1997)
Brunei 4% (2006)
Bulgaria 7.7% (2007 est.)
Burkina Faso 77% (2004)
Burma 5.2% (2007 est.)
Burundi NA%
Cambodia 2.5% (2000 est.)
Cameroon 30% (2001 est.)
Canada 6% (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 11.2% (2007 est.)
Comoros 20% (1996 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the NA%
Congo, Republic of the NA%
Cook Islands 13.1% (2005)
Costa Rica 4.6% (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 1.8% (2007 est.)
Cyprus 3.9% (2007 est.)
Czech Republic 6.6% (2007 est.)
Denmark 2.8% (2007 est.)
Djibouti 59% in urban areas, 83% in rural areas (2007 est.)
Dominica 23% (2000 est.)
Dominican Republic 15.6% (2007 est.)
Ecuador 8.8% (2007 est.)
Egypt 9.1% (2007 est.)
El Salvador 6.2% official rate; but the economy has much underemployment (2007 est.)
Equatorial Guinea 30% (1998 est.)
Eritrea NA%
Estonia 4.7% (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 6.9% (2007 est.)
France 7.9% (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%
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 8.3% (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% (2007 est.)
Hungary 7.3% (2007 est.)
Iceland 1% (2007 est.)
India 7.2% (2007 est.)
Indonesia 9.1% (2007 est.)
Iran 12% according to the Iranian government (2007 est.)
Iraq 18% to 30% (2006 est.)
Ireland 4.6% (2007 est.)
Isle of Man 1.5% (December 2006 est.)
Israel 7.3% (2007 est.)
Italy 6.2% (2007 est.)
Jamaica 9.9% (2007 est.)
Japan 3.8% (2007 est.)
Jersey 2.2% (2006 est.)
Jordan 13.5% official rate; unofficial rate is approximately 30% (2007 est.)
Kazakhstan 7.3% (2007 est.)
Kenya 40% (2001 est.)
Kiribati 2% official rate; underemployment 70% (1992 est.)
Korea, North NA%
Korea, South 3.3% (2007 est.)
Kosovo 43% (2007 est.)
Kuwait 2.2% (2004 est.)
Kyrgyzstan 18% (2004 est.)
Laos 2.4% (2005 est.)
Latvia 5.7% (2007 est.)
Lebanon 20% (2006 est.)
Lesotho 45% (2002)
Liberia 85% (2003 est.)
Libya 30% (2004 est.)
Liechtenstein 1.3% (September 2002)
Lithuania 3.5%
note: based on survey data, official registered unemployment of 5.7% (2007 est.)
Luxembourg 4.4% (2007 est.)
Macau 3.1% (2006)
Macedonia 34.9% (2007 est.)
Malawi NA%
Malaysia 3.2% (2007 est.)
Maldives NEGL% (2003 est.)
Mali 30% (2004 est.)
Malta 6.4% (2007 est.)
Marshall Islands 30.9% (2000 est.)
Mauritania 20% (2004 est.)
Mauritius 8.8% (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% (2007)
Montenegro 14.7% (2007 est.)
Montserrat 6% (1998 est.)
Morocco 9.8% (2007 est.)
Mozambique 21% (1997 est.)
Namibia 5.2% (2007 est.)
Nauru 90% (2004 est.)
Nepal 42% (2004 est.)
Netherlands 4.6% (2007 est.)
Netherlands Antilles 17% (2002 est.)
New Caledonia 17.1% (2004)
New Zealand 3.6% (2007 est.)
Nicaragua 4.9% plus underemployment of 46.5% (2007 est.)
Niger NA%
Nigeria 4.9% (2007 est.)
Niue 12% (2001)
Northern Mariana Islands 3.9% (2001)
Norway 2.5% (2007 est.)
Oman 15% (2004 est.)
Pakistan 5.6% plus substantial underemployment (2007 est.)
Palau 4.2% (2005 est.)
Panama 6.4% (2007 est.)
Papua New Guinea 1.9% up to 80% in urban areas (2004)
Paraguay 5.6% (2007 est.)
Peru 6.9% 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 4.1% (2007 est.)
Russia 6.2% (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% (2007 est.)
Serbia 18.8% (2007 est.)
Seychelles 2% (2006 est.)
Sierra Leone NA%
Singapore 2.1% (2007 est.)
Slovakia 8.4% (2007 est.)
Slovenia 7.7% (2007 est.)
Solomon Islands NA%
Somalia NA%
South Africa 24.3% (2007 est.)
Spain 8.3% (2007 est.)
Sri Lanka 6% (2007 est.)
Sudan 18.7% (2002 est.)
Suriname 9.5% (2004)
Swaziland 40% (2006 est.)
Sweden 6.1% (2007 est.)
Switzerland 2.8% (2007 est.)
Syria 9% (2007 est.)
Taiwan 3.9% (2007 est.)
Tajikistan 2.4% official rate; actual unemployment is higher (2007 est.)
Tanzania NA%
Thailand 1.4% (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 4.5% (2007 est.)
Tunisia 14.1% (2007 est.)
Turkey 9.9% plus underemployment of 4% (2007 est.)
Turkmenistan 60% (2004 est.)
Turks and Caicos Islands 10% (1997 est.)
Tuvalu NA%
Uganda NA%
Ukraine 2.3% 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 5.3% (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 8.5% (2007 est.)
Vietnam 4.3% (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.)

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