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It suffers from the highest unemployment and highest poverty rates in Northern Ireland. Throughout the 1990s, the Northern Irish economy grew faster than the rest of the UK, due in part to the rapid growth of the economy of the Republic of Ireland and the so-called "peace dividend".
This is a list of European Union member states by unemployment and employment rate. Map. Map of unemployment and employment rates: ... Ireland [16] 5.3 68.5 2018 ...
This is a list of European countries by unemployment and employment rate. Map. Blue: below 5% Green: 5.0 to 9.9% ... Ireland: 3.8% [4] 79.1% (2023) [5] May 2023 Italy ...
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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 ...
In February 2006, Belfast's unemployment rate stood at 4.2%, lower than both the Northern Ireland [22] and the UK average of 5.5%. [23] [needs update] Over the past 10 years employment has grown by 16.4 per cent, compared with 9.2 per cent for the UK as a whole. [24] Northern Ireland's peace dividend has
These figures gave an official UK unemployment rate of 4.7%. [8] UK unemployment rates consistent with this definition are available from 1971. Considering this consistent time series, the highest unemployment rate recorded since 1971 was 11.9% in 1984 and the lowest was 3.4% in late 1973/early 1974. [9]
However, unemployment reached 12.5% of the workforce by January 1982, a level that had not been seen for some 50 years. The unemployment rate remained similarly high for a number of years afterwards. Northern Ireland was the hardest-hit region, with unemployment standing at nearly 20%. The rate exceeded 15% in much of Scotland and Northern ...