OECD는 19일 2017년 중 회원국 실업률 통계를 발표했다. 이 보고서에 따르면 35개 회원국의 평균 실업률은 5.5%로 나타났다.(The OECD unemployment rate was stable at 5.5% in January 2018.)
국별 실업률을 보면 스페인이 16.3%로 가장 높다. 2위는 이탈리아로 11.1%이다. 1위 스페인과 2위 이탈리아에 이어 프랑스가 9.0%로 3위에 올랐다.
이어 핀란드가 8.5%로 4위, 라트비아가 8.3%로 5위, 포르투칼이 7.9%로 6위, 벨지움이 6.6%로 7위, 스웨덴이 6.5%로 8위, 아이슬란드가 6.1%로 9위 그리고 솔베니이아가 5.9%로 10위를 각각 차지했다.구제금융을 받고 있는 그리스의 실업률은 20%를 넘는 것으로 추정되지만 통계작성이 되지않아 국가순위에서 빠졌다.
한국의 2018년 1월 실업률은 3.6%, 미국은 4.1%, 그리고 일본은 2.4%로 각각 나타났다.
OECD 국가별 실업률 보도자료 전문 (March 2018)
OECD unemployment rate stable at 5.5% in January 2018
The OECD unemployment rate was stable at 5.5% in January 2018. Across the OECD area, 34.5 million people were unemployed, 1.9 million more than in April 2008.
In the euro area, the unemployment rate was stable at 8.6% in January. The unemployment rate fell by 0.2 percentage point or more in Slovenia (down 0.3 percentage point, to 5.9%) and the Netherlands (down 0.2 percentage point, to 4.2%).
By contrast, it increased by 0.2 percentage point in Italy (to 11.1%, returning to its November 2017 level).
Outside the euro area, the unemployment rate fell by 0.3 percentage point in Israel (to 3.7%) and Japan (to 2.4%), and by 0.1 percentage point in Korea (to 3.6%) and Mexico (to 3.3%). It was stable in the United States (at 4.1%) and rose by 0.1 percentage point in Canada (to 5.9%).
More recent data show that in February, the unemployment rate remained stable in the United States, while it decreased by 0.1 percentage point in Canada (to 5.8%).
In January, the OECD unemployment rate for women (down 0.1 percentage point, to 5.6%) remained slightly above that for men (unchanged at 5.4%). Over the past four years, the difference between unemployment rate for women and men has hovered between 0.1 and 0.4 percentage point.
Gender differences in unemployment rates are significantly higher in the euro area, where the unemployment rate for women in January was 0.7 percentage point higher than that for men.
Conversely, the unemployment rate for men exceeded that for women by 0.3 percentage point in both Japan and the United States.
The OECD unemployment rate for youth (people aged 15 to 24) fell by 0.2 percentage point in January (to 11.4%), the second consecutive monthly decline, but remains more than twice as large as that for other age categories.
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