by Felonius_Monk » Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:35 pm
According to the CIA factbook thingy, unemployment rates (which I guess would be for 2006) are as follows in some relevant nations (this is just FYI):
USA: 4.8% (anything under 5% would be kindof "not too bad" IMO)
UK: 2.9%
Sweden: 5.6%
France 8.7% (I'd heard this year it might've been touching 10, actually, quite bad)
Spain 8.1%
Austria: 4.9%
Germany: 7.1%
Ireland: 3.9%
Italy: 7%
Poland: 15%
Turkey: 10.2%
Greece: 9.2%
Romania: 6.1%
Russia: 6.6%
Czech Republic: 8.4%
Ukraine: 6.7%
Serbia: 20.8% (this is from 2005, and I guess is due to the aftermath of the Kosovo war; apparently unemployment in Kosovo, which I think is included in Serbia for this calculation, during this period was 50%)
Croatia: 14%
Canada: 6.4%
No real major patterns I can see. Countries with recent wars are obviously high, and, in general, Eastern Europe seems worse than Western Europe, although some of the ex-soviet nations (Russia etc) aren't bad at all. Poland seems the main bad one in Europe.
Comparatively speaking, the USA, UK and Sweden all have pretty low figures it seems.
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