Table 4 Labor market performance variables, 15–64 age of population for selected years (2000, 2010, and 2014)
Countries | Employment rate | Labor force participation rate | Unemployment rate | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | 2010 | 2014 | 2000 | 2010 | 2014 | 2000 | 2010 | 2014 | |
Group 1 | |||||||||
Australia | 67.1 | 71.7 | 70.9 | 71.6 | 75.7 | 75.6 | 6.4 | 5.6 | 6.6 |
Belgium | 57.3 | 60.3 | 60.2 | 61.7 | 66.0 | 66.0 | 8.4 | 10.9 | 11.1 |
Canada | 68.4 | 70.7 | 71.6 | 73.5 | 77.0 | 77.1 | 7.2 | 8.7 | 7.6 |
Czech Repub. | 62.9 | 63.5 | 66.0 | 68.9 | 68.6 | 70.5 | 10.5 | 10.6 | 9.4 |
Estonia | 60.3 | 60.3 | 67.3 | 70.7 | 72.6 | 72.8 | 16.2 | 20.8 | 9.2 |
France | 58.7 | 62.9 | 63.3 | 65.4 | 69.5 | 70.4 | 11.3 | 11.1 | 12.1 |
Greece | 55.7 | 56.2 | 46.6 | 62.7 | 64.8 | 64.4 | 12.7 | 15.5 | 30.4 |
Hungary | 54.0 | 53.3 | 60.0 | 57.7 | 60.2 | 65.2 | 7.5 | 14.6 | 11.2 |
Ireland | 63.9 | 58.5 | 59.3 | 66.9 | 67.8 | 67.7 | 4.7 | 15.7 | 14.6 |
Japan | 67.7 | 68.7 | 71.1 | 71.3 | 72.6 | 74.0 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 4.0 |
Korea | 61.1 | 61.2 | 63.4 | 64.0 | 63.8 | 65.9 | 5.4 | 4.9 | 4.6 |
Luxembourg | 58.2 | 61.2 | 62.5 | 59.7 | 64.1 | 66.7 | 2.8 | 6.1 | 8.5 |
Netherlands | 69.0 | 74.2 | 72.7 | 71.3 | 77.8 | 78.6 | 3.2 | 4.8 | 7.9 |
New Zealand | 69.1 | 72.4 | 74.5 | 73.6 | 77.5 | 79.1 | 6.5 | 7.4 | 6.6 |
Poland | 53.1 | 58.0 | 60.1 | 63.2 | 64.2 | 66.3 | 17.5 | 11.5 | 11.9 |
Portugal | 67.2 | 62.7 | 60.2 | 70.1 | 71.0 | 70.9 | 4.6 | 13.6 | 18.5 |
Slovak Repub. | 54.5 | 57.1 | 58.9 | 66.5 | 66.6 | 67.9 | 20.8 | 18.4 | 17.4 |
Spain | 54.7 | 55.4 | 52.2 | 63.4 | 69.9 | 70.4 | 14.4 | 23.5 | 29.6 |
Turkey | 48.1 | 44.7 | 47.9 | 50.9 | 50.5 | 53.1 | 5.7 | 11.4 | 9.8 |
UK | 70.2 | 68.9 | 70.9 | 74.5 | 75.1 | 76.0 | 6.0 | 9.0 | 7.5 |
USA | 71.9 | 65.6 | 67.2 | 75.0 | 72.8 | 71.8 | 4.4 | 10.7 | 7.1 |
Average | 61.6 | 62.3 | 63.2 | 66.8 | 69.0 | 70.0 | 8.7 | 11.5 | 11.7 |
Group 2 | |||||||||
Austria | 65.2 | 68.4 | 68.9 | 67.7 | 72.1 | 73.1 | 4.0 | 5.1 | 5.9 |
Denmark | 74.2 | 72.9 | 72.3 | 77.9 | 79.1 | 77.6 | 4.6 | 7.9 | 7.2 |
Finland | 65.3 | 68.3 | 68.5 | 72.6 | 74.8 | 75.2 | 10.9 | 9.9 | 10.0 |
Germany | 64.6 | 69.0 | 71.9 | 70.2 | 74.5 | 75.9 | 8.1 | 7.6 | 5.5 |
Iceland | 84.8 | 78.6 | 82.0 | 86.8 | 85.2 | 86.5 | 2.4 | 8.0 | 5.4 |
Italy | 51.6 | 53.7 | 52.4 | 57.8 | 59.2 | 61.0 | 12.2 | 12.5 | 19.2 |
Norway | 75.6 | 74.9 | 74.8 | 78.5 | 77.8 | 77.6 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 3.9 |
Sweden | 71.9 | 72.3 | 74.1 | 76.6 | 79.2 | 80.7 | 7.0 | 10.6 | 10.1 |
Switzerland | 76.6 | 77.4 | 78.5 | 78.8 | 81.3 | 82.4 | 3.0 | 4.8 | 4.9 |
Average | 70.0 | 70.6 | 71.5 | 74.1 | 75.9 | 76.7 | 6.3 | 7.8 | 8.0 |