List of countries by unemployment rate

There may also be differences in the minimum requirements and some consider people employed even if only marginally associated with employment market (for example, working only one hour per week).

For example, Eurostat uses 15 to 74 years old when calculating unemployment rate, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics uses anyone 16 years of age or older (in both cases, people who are under education, retired, on maternity/paternity leave, prevented from working due to health, or do not work but have been inactive in seeking employment in the last four weeks are excluded from the workforce, and therefore not counted as unemployed).

[3][4] Unemployment rates are often seasonally adjusted to avoid variations that depend on time of year.

For purposes of comparison, harmonized values are published by International Labour Organization (ILO) and by OECD.

Most unemployment rates given in the table below are derived from national statistics and therefore not directly comparable.