Labor > Unemployment > Long-term unemployment > Long-term unemployment per million: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: Long-term unemployment is conventionally defined either as those unemployed for 6 months or more or, as here, those unemployed for 12 months or more. The ratios calculated here show the proportion of these long-term unemployed among all unemployed.

Unemployment is defined in most OECD countries in accordance with the ILO Guidelines. Unemployment is usually measured by household labour force surveys and the unemployed are defined as those persons who report that they have worked in gainful employment for less than one hour in the previous week, who are available for work and who have taken actions to seek employment in the previous four weeks. The ILO Guidelines specify the kinds of actions that count as seeking work. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Luxembourg	67.38%	2009
2	Iceland	25.05%	2009
3	Slovakia	13.07%	2009
4	Ireland	6.8%	2009
	High income OECD countries average (profile)	5.91%	2009
5	Switzerland	5.27%	2009
6	Czech Republic	5.09%	2009
7	Hungary	4.74%	2009
8	Belgium	4.64%	2009
9	Greece	4.46%	2009
10	Portugal	4.45%	2009
11	Finland	4.3%	2009
12	Denmark	3.29%	2009
13	Austria	3.21%	2009
14	Netherlands	2.53%	2009
15	Norway	1.81%	2009
16	Sweden	1.39%	2009
17	New Zealand	1.33%	2009
18	Poland	1.2%	2009
19	Italy	0.829%	2009
20	Australia	0.709%	2009
21	Germany	0.691%	2009
22	France	0.624%	2009
23	Spain	0.602%	2009
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	0.436%	2009
24	Turkey	0.427%	2009
25	United Kingdom	0.4%	2009
26	Japan	0.251%	2009
27	Canada	0.221%	2009
28	United States	0.0324%	2009
29	Mexico	0.0233%	2009
30	South Korea	0.0114%	2009

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