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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 ...
Treasurer Paul Keating budgeted a record $9.1 billion surplus for 1989–90, and Labor won the 1990 election, aided by the support of environmentalists. To court the green vote, environment minister Graham Richardson had placed restrictions on mining (notably uranium mining [5]) and logging which had a detrimental effect on already rising unemployment.
The participation rate for 15- to 24-year-olds increased by 0.4 points to 70.7% while the unemployment rate for this group decreased by 0.1 points to 9.1%. [105] According to the ABS, in January 2024, the underemployment rate remained steady at 6.0%, while the underutilisation rate (the unemployed plus the under-employed) [ 106 ] decreased by 0 ...
September 2009 Australian unemployment rate: 5.7% [30] October 2009 Australian unemployment rate: 5.8% [ 31 ] The unemployment rate for October rose slightly due to population growth and other factors leading to 35,000 people looking for work, even though 24,500 jobs were created.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last month that the national August 2020 unemployment rate was 8.4%. More recently, on Wednesday, September 30, the BLS released metro area ...
Both recessions had high unemployment after the recessionary period had officially ended with unemployment rates of 12% and 11.4%, in 1983 and 1993, respectively. [20] Other sources describe the early 1990s recession as "the deepest in Canada since the Great Depression of the 1930s" naming it "the Great Canadian Slump of 1990–92." [21]
In April 2010, the US unemployment rate was 9.9%, but the government's broader U-6 unemployment rate was 17.1%. [176] In April 2012, the unemployment rate was 4.6% in Japan. [177] In a 2012 story, the Financial Post reported, "Nearly 75 million youth are unemployed around the world, an increase of more than 4 million since 2007. In the European ...
Between 2015 and mid 2019, unemployment rate has averaged 4.08%. [16] By Q1 2019, 3.6% of the 236,500 labour force remained unemployed, which was a year-on-year decrease of 0.02 percentage points. Since 2014, the participation rate in the ACT has been consistently greater than that of Australia, reaching was 72.5% in late 2017.