This is a list of OECD countries by
long-term unemployment rate published by the
OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate e ...
. This indicator refers to the number of persons who have been unemployed for one year or more as a percentage of the
labour force
The workforce or labour force is a concept referring to the pool of human beings either in employment or in unemployment. It is generally used to describe those working for a single company or industry, but can also apply to a geographic reg ...
(the sum of employed and unemployed persons). Unemployed persons are defined as those who are currently not working but are willing to do so and actively searching for work.
Rankings
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References
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Economic Policy InstituteCurrent unemployment rates by countryOECD Unemployment statisticsUnemployment statisticsby Lebanese-economy-forum, World Bank data
Labour and unemployment statistics by countryThermal maps of the world's unemployment percentage rates– by country, 2007–2010
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OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate e ...
International quality of life rankings
Unemployment
Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the refere ...