OECD Standardised Unemployment Rates (SURs) - Updated: November 2008

OECD Standardised Unemployment Rate stable at 6.0% in September 2008

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10/11/2008 - The standardised unemployment rate for the OECD area was 6.0% in September 2008, the same as the previous month and 0.4 percentage point higher than a year earlier.

 In the Euro area, the unemployment rate was 7.5% in September 2008, the same as the previous month and 0.2 percentage point higher than a year earlier. For the United States the unemployment rate for October 2008 was 6.5%, 0.4 percentage point higher than the previous month and 1.7 percentage points higher than a year earlier. For Japan, the rate was 4.0% in September 2008, 0.1 percentage point lower than the previous month but the same as in September 2007. etc.

Standardised unemployment rates for OECD countries

The next publication date of the OECD's standardised unemployment rates will be on 8 December 2008.

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