Unemployment average in the EU

Unemployment average in the EU

The average unemployment rate in the 15 member states of the European Union (EU) is recorded as 8.1% as of end May 2003. As per the information obtained from Eurostat, the EU's unemployment rates on some of the countries are; 3.8% in Luxembourg, 3.9% in Netherlands, 4.3% in Austria, 4.6% in Ireland, 5.2% in Denmark, 5.4% in Sweden, 7.5% in Portugal, 7.9% in Belgium, 8.7% in Italy, 9% in Finland, 9.1% in France, 9.4% in Germany and 11.3% in Spain. According to the information provided by the EU's statistics institution Eurostat, the umployment rate for the same period is recorded as 6.2% in the US and 5.4% in Japan.