est.)

Djibouti
59% in urban areas, 83% in rural areas (2007 est.)

Dominica
23% (2000 est.)

Dominican Republic
15.6% (2007 est.)

Ecuador
8.8% (2007 est.)

Egypt
9.1% (2007 est.)

El Salvador
6.2% official rate; but the economy has much
underemployment (2007 est.)

Equatorial Guinea
30% (1998 est.)

Eritrea
NA%

Estonia
4.7% (2007 est.)

Ethiopia
NA%

European Union
8.5% (2006 est.)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
full employment; labor shortage
(2001)

Faroe Islands
2.1% (2006)

Fiji
7.6% (1999)

Finland
6.9% (2007 est.)

France
7.9% (2007 est.)

French Polynesia
11.7% (2005)

Gabon
21% (2006 est.)

Gambia, The
NA%

Gaza Strip
34.8% (2006)

Georgia
13.6% (2006 est.)

Germany
9%
note: this is the International Labor Organization's estimated rate
for international comparisons; Germany's Federal Employment Office
estimated a seasonally adjusted rate of 10.8% (2007 est.)

Ghana
11% (2000 est.)

Gibraltar
3% (2005 est.)

Greece
8.3% (2007 est.)

Greenland
9.3% (2005 est.)

Grenada
12.5% (2000)

Guam
11.4% (2002 est.)

Guatemala
3.2% (2005 est.)

Guernsey
0.9% (March 2006 est.)

Guinea
NA%

Guinea-Bissau
NA%

Guyana
9.1% (understated) (2000)

Haiti
widespread unemployment and underemployment; more than
two-thirds of the labor force do not have formal jobs (2002 est.)

Honduras
27.8% (2007 est.)

Hong Kong
4% (2007 est.)

Hungary
7.3% (2007 est.)

Iceland
1% (2007 est.)

India
7.2% (2007 est.)

Indonesia
9.1% (2007 est.)

Iran
12% according to the Iranian government (2007 est.)

Iraq
18% to 30% (2006 est.)

Ireland
4.6% (2007 est.)

Isle of Man
1.5% (December 2006 est.)

Israel
7.3% (2007 est.)

Italy
6.2% (2007 est.)

Jamaica
9.9% (2007 est.)

Japan
3.8% (2007 est.)

Jersey
2.2% (2006 est.)

Jordan
13.5% official rate; unofficial rate is approximately 30%
(2007 est.)

Kazakhstan
7.3% (2007 est.)

Kenya
40% (2001 est.)

Kiribati
2% official rate; underemployment 70% (1992 est.)

Korea, North
NA%

Korea, South
3.3% (2007 est.)

Kosovo
43% (2007 est.)

Kuwait
2.2% (2004 est.)

Kyrgyzstan
18% (2004 est.)

Laos
2.4% (2005 est.)

Latvia
5.7% (2007 est.)

Lebanon
20% (2006 est.)

Lesotho
45% (2002)

Liberia
85% (2003 est.)

Libya