Economic indicators: Unemployment

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Series Details No.4 August
Publication Date August 1999
ISSN 0264-7362
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Unemployment. EU seasonally adjusted unemployment was 9.4% in May 1999, which compares with 10.1.% in May 1998. US unemployment was 4.2% and Japanese unemployment 4.7%.

The rates in individual countries was as follows:

Luxembourg 2.8%
Netherlands 3.3% (4/99)
Austria 4.3%
Denmark 4.7% (4/99)
Portugal 4.7%
Ireland 6.8%
Sweden 6.8%
Belgium 9.0%
Germany 9.1%
Finland 10.5%
France 11.2%
Italy 12.0% (4/99)
Spain 16.2%
Greece n/a
United Kingdom n/a

Source: News Release (Eurostat), No.62, (6.7.99)

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