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What is the low-skilled unemployment rate of the civilian labor force?

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Unemployment rate, persons with less than upper secondary attainment (ISCED 0-2), age group 25-64 years
Year:	2021
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, CAN, CHL, ISR, KOR, MEX, NZL, GBR, USA
Exceptions:	AUS (2020), CAN (2020), CHL (2017), ISR (2020), KOR (2020), MEX (2020), GBR (2020), USA (2020)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Educational attainment and labour-force status URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted October 27th, 2021 (years 2019-2020), October 8th, 2019 (year 2018), October 25th, 2018 (year 2017), June 6th, 2018 (up to 2016)
Source 2:	Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	AUT, BEL, BGR, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ITA, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, NLD, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR
Exceptions:	TUR (2020)
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: Unemployment rates by sex, age and educational attainment level (%) [lfsa_urgaed] URL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurosta… extracted June 15th, 2022
Source 3:	ILOSTAT Online Database
Data for:	JPN
Exceptions:	JPN (2020)
Annotation:	ILOSTAT: Dataset: Unemployment by sex, age and education URL: https://ilostat.ilo.org/data… extracted June 6th, 2018

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	25.195
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9

Additional annotations and exceptions

JPN: Value refers to persons with less than primary education (ISCED 0)

Top group

Score

Low-skilled Unemployment

Japan

10.0

0.00

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Upper middle group

Mexico

8.8

3.22

South Korea

8.4

4.34

Malta

8.4

4.40

Netherlands

8.4

4.40

Israel

8.3

4.84

New Zealand

8.3

4.89

8.2

5.00

Luxembourg

7.9

5.80

Portugal

7.7

6.30

Chile

7.7

6.33

Norway

7.6

6.70

Denmark

7.6

6.80

Iceland

7.6

6.80

Germany

7.5

7.00

Poland

7.4

7.30

Australia

7.3

7.58

Slovenia

7.2

7.80

Cyprus

7.1

8.10

USA

7.0

8.31

Ireland

6.9

8.60

Hungary

6.6

9.60

Switzerland

6.5

9.90

Croatia

6.4

10.20

Lower middle group

Czechia

5.8

11.70

Turkey

5.8

11.80

Estonia

5.7

12.00

France

5.7

12.00

Canada

5.6

12.31

Italy

5.6

12.40

Romania

5.6

12.40

Belgium

5.4

12.90

Austria

5.1

13.60

Finland

5.1

13.60

Latvia

5.1

13.70

Lithuania

4.5

15.30

Bulgaria

4.4

15.60

Greece

4.1

16.60

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Bottom group

Spain

2.9

19.80

Sweden

1.5

23.80

Slovakia

1.0

39.00