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The lowest level of national unemployment came in 1947 with a 2.2% unemployment rate, a result of the smaller pool of available workers caused by casualties from the Second World War. The highest level of unemployment throughout Canada was set in December 1982, when the early 1980s recession resulted in 13.1% of the adult population being out ...
Unemployment rate (2021) [1] This is a list of countries by unemployment rate.Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count those in receipt of welfare benefit only, some count the disabled and other permanently unemployable people, some countries count those who choose (and are financially ...
Between mid-2022 and early 2024, Canada's unemployment rate increased by 1.6%, a rise historically associated with recessionary periods in Canada since the 1970s. This increase, though smaller relative to its prior major recessions, was considered significant given its emergence from post-pandemic record lows.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that Canada will place 25% counter-tariffs on CAD $155 billion (USD $107 billion) worth of American-made products, starting Tuesday. ... the unemployment rate is ...
The unemployment rate would average 4.5% this year, 0.3 percentage points higher than without the tariffs, Sweet said. ... This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Trump's tariffs on Canada ...
This is a list of OECD countries by long-term unemployment rate published by the OECD. ... Canada: 0.90%: 0.89% 0.50%
In 2014, unemployment dropped to 5.6 percent—making it the best year for job growth since 2007. Yet Five charts help explain the state of unemployment in America today
At the height of the 2008–2009 recession in Canada, unemployment peaked at 8.3 percent. [38] The subprime mortgage crisis and the 2007–2009 which followed, increased the unemployment rate to a peak of 10% in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has been steadily falling. It reached 5% in December 2015.