Economic indicators: Unemployment

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Series Details No.2 April
Publication Date April 1998
ISSN 0264-7362
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Economic indicators:
Unemployment. EU seasonally adjusted unemployment was 10.4% at the end of January 1998. This is the same as the revised rate for December 1997. The level had been 10.8% in January 1996 and January 1997.

The rates in individual EU Member States was as follows:
































Luxembourg   3.4%

Austria

  4.3%

Netherlands

  4.6%

Denmark

  5.9%

Portugal

  6.6%
United Kingdom   6.7%

Belgium

  8.9%

Sweden

  9.3%

Ireland

  9.7%

Germany

  9.8%

France

12.1%

Finland

12.6%

Spain

20.2%

Greece

  -

Italy

  -

Source: News Release (Eurostat), No.20, 1998 (13.3.98)

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