Comparable country indicators

Country ranking by unemployment rate for 2013

Country ranking by “Unemployment rate” for 2013. The table covers 50 countries with a published value; another 5 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 2013, first value in current order: South Korea (3.1 % of the labour force)
Unemployment rate by country, 2013. Source: International Monetary Fund, Eurostat, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Central Bank of Brazil, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. forecasteconomy.com
First value in current order — South Korea3.1 % of the labour force
Last value in current order — North Macedonia28 % of the labour force
Countries with data50 of 55
Latest date in the slice1 December 2013

Full country ranking

RankCountryValue, % of the labour forcePeriod
1South Korea3.12013
2Japan4.00832013
3Norway4.4December 2013
4Switzerland4.7December 2013
5Germany4.8December 2013
6Mexico4.94172013
7Azerbaijan4.97292013
8Moldova5.12013
9New Zealand5.8252013
10Austria5.9December 2013
11Malta5.9December 2013
12Australia5.9008December 2013
13Luxembourg6December 2013
14Iceland6.1December 2013
15Brazil6.2December 2013
16Israel6.20832013
17United States6.7December 2013
18Czechia6.8December 2013
19Ukraine6.87152013
20Denmark6.9December 2013
21United Kingdom7.1December 2013
22Canada7.4December 2013
23Sweden8.1December 2013
24Hungary8.3December 2013
25Finland8.4December 2013
26Estonia8.5December 2013
27Netherlands8.5December 2013
28Belgium8.7December 2013
29Romania8.9December 2013
30Türkiye9.1December 2013
31Slovenia9.9December 2013
32France10.2December 2013
33Poland10.2December 2013
34Latvia11.3December 2013
35Lithuania11.6December 2013
36Italy12.7December 2013
37Ireland12.8December 2013
38Slovakia14December 2013
39Bulgaria14.1December 2013
40Portugal15.8December 2013
41Albania15.92013
42Cyprus16.2December 2013
43Armenia16.22013
44Croatia17.6December 2013
45Serbia232013
46South Africa24.7252013
47Spain25.5December 2013
48Georgia26.42013
49Greece27.7December 2013
50North Macedonia28December 2013

Countries without data for 2013

These countries have no published value for the selected indicator in 2013.

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Data source

International Monetary Fund, Eurostat, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Central Bank of Brazil, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Office for National 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 2013

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