Comparable country indicators

Country ranking by unemployment rate for 1986

Country ranking by “Unemployment rate” for 1986. The table covers 21 countries with a published value; another 34 in the world catalogue have no value for this year. For Russia the ranking uses the unemployment rate from Rosstat’s labour force survey. Foreign values follow Eurostat’s harmonised methodology. Both measures are close in meaning (share of unemployed in the labour force), but age coverage and survey details may differ.

Unemployment rate by country — ranking 1986, first value in current order: Luxembourg (2.4 % of the labour force)
Unemployment rate by country, 1986. Source: Eurostat, International Monetary Fund, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Canada and Office for National Statistics. forecasteconomy.com
First value in current order — Luxembourg2.4 % of the labour force
Last value in current order — Spain20.2 % of the labour force
Countries with data21 of 55
Latest date in the slice1 December 1986

Full country ranking

RankCountryValue, % of the labour forcePeriod
1Luxembourg2.4December 1986
2Sweden2.6December 1986
3Japan2.76671986
4South Korea3.84171986
5New Zealand4.21986
6Mexico4.31986
7Denmark4.9December 1986
8Albania5.43021986
9United States6.6December 1986
10Israel7.07781986
11Netherlands7.4December 1986
12Australia8.3639December 1986
13Portugal8.9December 1986
14France9.2December 1986
15Italy9.2December 1986
16Canada9.5December 1986
17Belgium10.1December 1986
18United Kingdom11.2December 1986
19South Africa16.04891986
20Ireland16.8December 1986
21Spain20.2December 1986

Countries without data for 1986

These countries have no published value for the selected indicator in 1986.

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Data source

Eurostat, International Monetary Fund, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Canada and Office for National Statistics. Units: % of the labour force. For each calendar year the last published value within the year is used.

Data as of December 1986

Eurostat

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