Economic indicators: Unemployment

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Series Details No.1 February
Publication Date February 1999
ISSN 0264-7362
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Economic indicators:

Unemployment. In December 1998 EU seasonally adjusted unemployment was 9.8% compared to 10.4% in 1997.

The rate in individual countries was as follows:


Luxembourg   2.0%
Netherlands   3.6% (11/98)
Austria   4.4%
Portugal   4.4%
Denmark   4.6%
Ireland   7.3%
Sweden   7.4%
Belgium   8.4%
Germany   9.5%
Finland 10.9%
France 11.7%
Spain 18.2%
Greece       n/a
Italy       n/a
United Kingdom       n/a

Source: News Release (Eurostat), No.9/99, (4.2.99)

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