APPENDIX 2-3 Unemployment Rate①
Source: ILO Database.	(%)
Country or Region	2000	2005	2006	2007	2008
China②	3.1	4.2	4.1	4.0	4.2
Hong Kong, China③	4.9	5.6	4.8	4.0	3.6
Macao, China④	6.8	4.1	3.8	3.1	3.0
Bangladesh	3.3	4.3
India	4.3
Indonesia	6.1	11.2	10.3	9.1	8.4
Iran⑤		11.5	11.3	10.5	10.4
Israel	8.8	9.0	8.4	7.3	6.1
Japan	4.7	4.4	4.1	3.9	4.0
Kazakhstan	12.8	8.1	7.8	7.3	6.6
Korea, Rep.	4.4	3.7	3.5	3.2	3.2
Malaysia⑥	3.0	3.5	3.3	3.2	3.3
Mongolia⑦⑧	4.6	3.3	3.2	2.8	2.8
Pakistan⑤	7.8	7.7	6.2	5.3	5.2
Philippines	11.2	7.8	8.0	7.3	7.4
Singapore		5.6	4.5	4.0	4.0
Sri Lanka⑤⑨	7.6	7.7	6.5	6.0	5.2
Thailand	2.4⑩	1.4	1.2	1.2	1.2
Viet Nam	2.3				2.4
Egypt⑥	9.0	11.2	10.6	8.9
South Africa⑥	25.4	26.7	25.5	23.0	22.9
Canada⑪	6.8	6.8	6.3	6.0	6.1
Mexico④	2.6	3.5	3.2	3.4	3.5
United States⑧	4.0	5.1	4.6	4.6	5.8
Argentina⑤⑫	15.0	10.6	9.5
Brazil⑤		9.3	8.4	8.2
Venezuela	13.2	11.4	9.3	7.5	6.9
Czech Rep.	8.8	7.9	7.1	5.3	4.4
France	8.5	8.9	8.8	8.0	7.4
Germany	7.9	11.1	10.3	8.6	7.5
Italy	10.5	7.7	6.8	6.1	6.7
Netherlands⑥	3.1	5.1	4.2	3.5	3.0
Poland	16.1	17.7⑬	13.8⑬	9.6⑬	7.1⑬
Russian Fed.⑭	9.8	7.2	7.2	6.1	6.3
Spain⑧	13.9	9.2	8.5	8.3	11.3
Turkey	6.5	10.3	9.9	10.3	11.0
Ukraine⑮	11.6	7.2	6.8	6.4	6.4
United Kingdom⑧	5.4	4.6	5.4	5.3	5.3
Australia	6.4	5.0	4.8	4.4	4.2
New Zealand	6.1	3.8	3.8	3.7	4.2
Note:①Persons aged 15 years and over, unless otherwise specified.②Registered unemployment rate in urban areas.③Excludes marine, military and
institutional populations. ④Persons aged 14 years and over.⑤Persons ages 10 years and over.⑥Persons aged 15 to 64 years.⑦Registered unemploy-
ment. ⑧Persons aged 16 years and over.⑨Prior to 2005,excludes Northern province; from 2005, excludes Northern and Eastern provinces.⑩Persons
aged 13 years and over.⑪Excluding residents of the Territories and indigenous persons living on reserves.⑫ Prior to 2006，data include 28 Urban
agglomerations, after 2006,data include 31 Urban agglomerations. ⑬Persons aged 15 to 74 years.⑭Persons aged 15 to 72 years. ⑮Persons aged 15
to 70 years.