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What is the unemployment rate of the civilian labor force?

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Unemployment rate, age group 15-64 years
Year:	2021
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, CAN, CHL, ISR, JPN, KOR, MEX, NZL, TUR, GBR, USA
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: LFS by sex and age - indicators URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted June 15th, 2022
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
Annotation:	Eurostat: Dataset: Unemployment rates by sex, age and country of birth (%) [lfsa_urgacob] URL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurosta… extracted June 15th, 2022

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	16.5125
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Unemployment

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Upper middle group

Czechia

8.4

2.90

Japan

8.4

2.97

Poland

8.1

3.40

Germany

8.0

3.60

Malta

8.0

3.60

South Korea

8.0

3.64

New Zealand

7.8

3.97

Hungary

7.8

4.10

Netherlands

7.7

4.20

Mexico

7.7

4.26

Norway

7.5

4.50

7.5

4.51

Slovenia

7.4

4.80

Israel

7.2

5.09

Denmark

7.2

5.10

Australia

7.1

5.26

Bulgaria

7.1

5.30

Luxembourg

7.1

5.30

Switzerland

7.1

5.30

USA

7.1

5.41

Romania

6.9

5.60

Iceland

6.6

6.20

Austria

6.6

6.30

Belgium

6.6

6.30

Ireland

6.6

6.30

Estonia

6.5

6.50

Portugal

6.3

6.70

Slovakia

6.2

6.90

Lithuania

6.0

7.40

Lower middle group

Canada

5.9

7.44

Croatia

5.9

7.60

Cyprus

5.8

7.70

Finland

5.7

7.80

France

5.7

7.90

Latvia

5.7

7.90

Sweden

5.1

9.00

Chile

5.0

9.10

Italy

4.7

9.70

Turkey

3.3

12.23

Bottom group

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Greece

1.9

14.90

Spain

1.9

14.90