Comparable country indicators
Country ranking by unemployment rate for 1998
Country ranking by “Unemployment rate” for 1998. The table covers 38 countries with a published value; another 17 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.
Full country ranking
| Rank | Country | Value, % of the labour force | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luxembourg | 2.4 | December 1998 |
| 2 | Norway | 2.8 | December 1998 |
| 3 | Mexico | 3.16 | 1998 |
| 4 | Japan | 4.1 | 1998 |
| 5 | Austria | 4.3 | December 1998 |
| 6 | United States | 4.4 | December 1998 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 4.6 | December 1998 |
| 8 | Denmark | 4.9 | December 1998 |
| 9 | Portugal | 5.8 | December 1998 |
| 10 | United Kingdom | 6.2 | December 1998 |
| 11 | Romania | 6.4 | December 1998 |
| 12 | Ireland | 6.6 | December 1998 |
| 13 | South Korea | 6.95 | 1998 |
| 14 | Australia | 7.1841 | December 1998 |
| 15 | Czechia | 7.3 | December 1998 |
| 16 | Slovenia | 7.4 | December 1998 |
| 17 | Sweden | 7.4 | December 1998 |
| 18 | New Zealand | 7.725 | 1998 |
| 19 | Hungary | 7.8 | December 1998 |
| 20 | Canada | 8.1 | December 1998 |
| 21 | Germany | 9 | December 1998 |
| 22 | Belgium | 9.1 | December 1998 |
| 23 | Moldova | 9.2316 | 1998 |
| 24 | Israel | 10.675 | 1998 |
| 25 | France | 10.7 | December 1998 |
| 26 | Finland | 10.8 | December 1998 |
| 27 | Poland | 11 | December 1998 |
| 28 | Ukraine | 11.3 | 1998 |
| 29 | Greece | 11.4 | December 1998 |
| 30 | Italy | 11.4 | December 1998 |
| 31 | Georgia | 12.4 | 1998 |
| 32 | Serbia | 12.8 | 1998 |
| 33 | Lithuania | 13.3 | December 1998 |
| 34 | Slovakia | 13.6 | December 1998 |
| 35 | Latvia | 13.7 | December 1998 |
| 36 | Spain | 15.4 | December 1998 |
| 37 | Albania | 17.7 | 1998 |
| 38 | South Africa | 26.1 | 1998 |
Countries without data for 1998
These countries have no published value for the selected indicator in 1998.
Other ranking indicators
- Harmonised index of consumer prices
- Unemployment rate
- General government budget balance
- General government gross debt
- Population
- Long-term government bond yield
- Economic activity rate
- GDP per capita relative to the EU average
- Gross domestic product at current prices
- Gross domestic product per capita at current prices
Other years
Data source
Eurostat, International Monetary Fund, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Office for National Statistics, Australian Bureau of Statistics and Statistics Canada. Units: % of the labour force. For each calendar year the last published value within the year is used.
Data as of December 1998