Economic indicators: Unemployment

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Series Details No.6 December
Publication Date December 1998
ISSN 0264-7362
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Economic indicators:
Unemployment. EU seasonally adjusted unemployment was 10.0% in August 1998, the same as in July. This compares to 10.6% in August 1997.

The rates in individual countries was as follows:

Luxembourg   2.2%
Netherlands   3.8 (July)
Austria   4.5%
Denmark   4.6% (July)
Portugal   6.2%
Sweden   8.2%
Belgium   8.9%
Ireland   9.0%
Germany   9.6%
Finland 11.5%
France 11.9%
Italy 12.3 (July)
Spain 18.7%
Greece n/a
United Kingdom n/a

Source: News Release (Eurostat), No.80, 1998, (9.10.98)
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