Finland tops the map at 10.2%, edging out Spain's 9.8%, while Central and Eastern Europe hold the low end:
Poland, Bulgaria, Czechia and Switzerland all sit near 3%.
Spain's rate has slipped below 10% for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis
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Ain’t no way UK has a similar unemployment rate to Italy.
Italians themselves move to the UK for work
Im surprised with Sweden 8-10 % it’s pretty high, to many unemployed engineers now?
Finland also had the second-fastest OECD GDP growth in Q1 2026 after South Korea. Hopefully more jobs will show up now. Big growth in for example Shipping industry and machinery
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I find this map really hard to believe all across the board
I’m very surprised about Spain. It’s economy is faring quite well yet 10% unemployment?
And Switzerland’s unemployment rate is a couple of integers higher, as usual we are the best at branding ourselves.
Probably the worst statistic to compare amongst different countries. Literally every single country has its own way of counting this metric. Some countries include people actively looking for jobs as “occupied”, others don’t. Some countries see students at universities as employed, while other countries don’t. Impossible to compare.
It doesn’t make sense to compare unemployment rates between countries.
The UK is not in Europe
You‘d think Germany would top these stats with all the doom and gloom in our local media. And then you look around and see that the situation is worse nearly everywhere else.
Finland had extensive economic ties with Russia which were almost completely severed in the last 5 years.
Russia’s data can’t be reliable
Official data for Russia appears inaccurate. Firstly, registering as unemployed is extremely difficult; secondly, there’s a risk of being sent to war afterward; thirdly, there’s little point in officially being unemployed because the state pays little for this status.
In Germany, there is a significant amount of so-called “hidden” unemployment that should be taken into account. I don’t know how the statistics handle this in other countries.
So the world’s best schools….
Oh no, not a Finrand
Data from France recently evolved to 8,1% of unemployment rate following: [insee](https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8989990#:~:text=R%C3%A9visions-,Le%20taux%20de%20ch%C3%B4mage%20augmente%20de%200%2C2%20point%20au,%2C%20et%20atteint%208%2C1%20%25) (french official statistics)
What is counted here? I know my country can be pretty good at putting people in bullshit jobs to punish numbers. What happens here if somebody’s working part time but would like or need full time?
I thought france broke the 8% barrier recently