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What is the long-term unemployment rate of the civilian labor force?

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Long term unemployment rate, persons unemployed more than one year, total population
Year:	2021
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, AUT, BEL, BGR, CAN, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ISR, ITA, JPN, KOR, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, MEX, NLD, NZL, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR, USA
Exceptions:	AUS (2018)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Incidence of unemployment by duration LFS by sex and age - indicators URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted June 21st, 2022
Source 2:	ILOSTAT Online Database
Data for:	CHL
Annotation:	ILOSTAT: Dataset: Labour force by sex and age (thousands) Unemployment by sex, age and duration (thousands), duration (Aggregate): 12 months or more URL: https://www.ilo.org/shinyapp… https://www.ilo.org/shinyapp… extracted June 21st, 2022

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	8.155
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9
Annotat.:	Indicator calculated by Margit Kraus (Calculus Consult)

Top group

Score

Long-term Unemployment

South Korea

10.0

0.04

Mexico

9.8

0.20

New Zealand

9.5

0.42

Israel

9.5

0.47

Czechia

9.1

0.79

Netherlands

9.1

0.85

Poland

9.0

0.89

Upper middle group

Malta

8.9

0.96

Denmark

8.9

0.97

Japan

8.9

1.01

Australia

8.9

1.03

Norway

8.8

1.05

Germany

8.7

1.16

Canada

8.7

1.22

USA

8.6

1.24

Hungary

8.6

1.26

8.6

1.26

Iceland

8.6

1.28

Estonia

8.3

1.56

Ireland

8.2

1.61

Sweden

8.1

1.70

Luxembourg

8.0

1.78

Finland

8.0

1.84

Austria

7.8

1.95

Slovenia

7.8

1.95

Romania

7.7

2.04

Switzerland

7.7

2.11

Latvia

7.5

2.28

France

7.4

2.32

Chile

7.4

2.39

Cyprus

7.2

2.55

Bulgaria

7.1

2.60

Lithuania

7.1

2.61

Belgium

7.1

2.65

Croatia

6.9

2.81

Portugal

6.9

2.85

Lower middle group

Turkey

5.9

3.73

Slovakia

5.7

3.87

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Italy

3.9

5.51

Spain

3.2

6.17

Bottom group

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Greece

1.0

9.26