Comparable country indicators
Country ranking by unemployment rate for 2004
Country ranking by “Unemployment rate” for 2004. The table covers 46 countries with a published value; another 9 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 | Iceland | 3.1 | December 2004 |
| 2 | South Korea | 3.6583 | 2004 |
| 3 | Mexico | 3.9192 | 2004 |
| 4 | New Zealand | 4.025 | 2004 |
| 5 | Norway | 4.4 | December 2004 |
| 6 | Ireland | 4.7 | December 2004 |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 4.7 | December 2004 |
| 8 | Japan | 4.7333 | 2004 |
| 9 | Luxembourg | 4.9 | December 2004 |
| 10 | Australia | 5.0687 | December 2004 |
| 11 | Cyprus | 5.3 | December 2004 |
| 12 | Denmark | 5.3 | December 2004 |
| 13 | United States | 5.4 | December 2004 |
| 14 | Austria | 5.9 | December 2004 |
| 15 | Slovenia | 6.4 | December 2004 |
| 16 | Hungary | 6.5 | December 2004 |
| 17 | Malta | 6.8 | December 2004 |
| 18 | Netherlands | 7 | December 2004 |
| 19 | Canada | 7.1 | December 2004 |
| 20 | Sweden | 7.6 | December 2004 |
| 21 | Czechia | 7.8 | December 2004 |
| 22 | Italy | 7.9 | December 2004 |
| 23 | Azerbaijan | 7.9874 | 2004 |
| 24 | Romania | 8 | December 2004 |
| 25 | Moldova | 8.1 | 2004 |
| 26 | Belgium | 8.2 | December 2004 |
| 27 | Finland | 8.4 | December 2004 |
| 28 | Ukraine | 8.5878 | 2004 |
| 29 | Portugal | 8.7 | December 2004 |
| 30 | France | 8.9 | December 2004 |
| 31 | Estonia | 9.5 | December 2004 |
| 32 | Greece | 10.2 | December 2004 |
| 33 | Lithuania | 10.3 | December 2004 |
| 34 | Spain | 10.3 | December 2004 |
| 35 | Germany | 10.7 | December 2004 |
| 36 | Bulgaria | 11.5 | December 2004 |
| 37 | Latvia | 11.7 | December 2004 |
| 38 | Israel | 12.9 | 2004 |
| 39 | Croatia | 13.6 | December 2004 |
| 40 | Georgia | 13.9 | 2004 |
| 41 | Albania | 14.4 | 2004 |
| 42 | Slovakia | 17.6 | December 2004 |
| 43 | Poland | 18.3 | December 2004 |
| 44 | Serbia | 19.53 | 2004 |
| 45 | South Africa | 25.15 | 2004 |
| 46 | Armenia | 31.6 | 2004 |
Countries without data for 2004
These countries have no published value for the selected indicator in 2004.
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, Office for National Statistics, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 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 2004