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OECD unemployment rate edges down to 7.2% in September 2014

The OECD unemployment rate fell by 0.1 percentage point to 7.2% in September 2014. Across the OECD area, 44.2 million people were unemployed, 5.6 million less than the peak recorded in April 2010 but still 9.6 million more than in July 2008.

The unemployment rate was stable in the Euro area, at 11.5%, for the fourth consecutive month. Within the Euro area, unemployment recorded the strongest declines in Portugal (by 0.3 percentage point, to 13.6%), Ireland (by 0.2 percentage point, to 11.2%), the Slovak Republic (by 0.2 percentage point, to 13.0%), Slovenia (by 0.2 percentage point, to 8.9%) and Spain (by 0.2 percentage point, to 24.0%), and the highest increase in Austria (by 0.2 percentage point to 5.1%).

In the United States and in Canada, the unemployment rate decreased by 0.2 percentage point to 5.9% and 6.8% respectively, while it rose by 0.1 percentage point in Japan (to 3.6%). More recent data for October show that the unemployment rate continued to fall in Canada (by 0.3 percentage point to 6.5%) and in the United States (by 0.1 percentage point to 5.8%).

The OECD unemployment rate for youth (15-24) increased, by 0.3 percentage point, in September, to a level of 15.1%. Youth unemployment remains exceptionally high in several Euro area countries, with more than one in two unemployed among young people participating in the labour market in Greece (50.7% in July, the latest month available) and Spain (53.7%), and more than one in three unemployed in Portugal (35.2%) and Italy (42.9%).

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