List of countries by unemployment rate
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This is a list of unemployment
Unemployment
Unemployment , as defined by the International Labour Organization, occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively sought work within the past four weeks...

 rates for various countries
. Unless indicated otherwise, statistics are based on The World Factbook
The World Factbook
The World Factbook is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official paper copy version is available from the National Technical Information Service and the Government Printing Office...

. Several non-sovereign entities are also included in this list. Note that different states, NGOs, and agencies estimate unemployment rates using different definitions and methodologies. Given the dramatic differences in cultural attitudes towards the workforce and working conditions that exist even between Western countries, a definition that is both descriptive and objective probably does not exist. Questions like how is a part-time job counted, how long until someone is out of the workforce, and the status of subsistence living have not been agreed upon. In short, these figures are not directly comparable.

Comparable unemployment rates

Because international comparisons of unemployment rates can be misleading several organizations adjust unemployment rates to a common concept to allow accurate international comparisons. These comparisons generally pertain to developed countries and are prepared by the Division of International Labor Comparisons
Division of international labor comparisons
The International Labor Comparisons Program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics adjusts economic statistics to a common conceptual framework in order to make data comparable across countries...

, Eurostat
Eurostat
Eurostat is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in Luxembourg. Its main responsibilities are to provide the European Union with statistical information at European level and to promote the integration of statistical methods across the Member States of the European Union,...

, and the statistical division of the OECD.

Unemployment rate by country

Country / Region Unemployment rate (%) Source / date of information
 Afghanistan 35.0 2008
 Albania 13.49 2010 (Q4)
 Algeria 10.0 2010 (September)
 American Samoa (United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

)
23.8 2010
 Andorra 2.9 2009
 Anguilla (United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

)
7.8 2002 (July)
 Antigua and Barbuda 11.0 2001
 Argentina 7.3 2010 (Q4)
 Armenia 7.0 2010 (December)
 Aruba (Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

)
5.7 2007
 Australia 5.2 2011 (September)
 Austria 4.3 2011 (May)
 Azerbaijan 6.0 2009
 Bahrain 15 2005
 Bangladesh 5.0 2009
 Barbados 9.4 2010 (Q3)
 Belarus 0.7 2010
 Belgium 7.3 2011 (May)
 Belize 12.6 2009 (September)
 Bermuda 4.5 2009 (May)
 Bhutan 4.0 2009
 Bolivia 6.0 2010 (Q2)
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 29.2 2010 (August)
 Botswana 7.5 2007
 Brazil 5.8 2011 (November)
 British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

)
3.1 2007
 Brunei 3.7 2008
 Kingdom of Bulgaria 11.2 2011 (May)
 Myanmar 4.9 2009
 Cambodia 1.68 2008
 Cameroon 4.4 (underemployment - 75.8) 30.0(CIA estimate) 2005
 Canada 7.2 2011 (July)
 Cape Verde 13.1 2010 (May)
 Cayman Islands (United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

)
4.0 (5.5 - 2010 estimate) 2008
 Central African Republic 8.0 2001
 Chile 7.1 2010 (December)
 People's Republic of China 4.1 2010 (September)
 Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

)
60.0 2000
 Colombia 9.7 2011 (September)
 Comoros 20.0 1996
 Cook Islands (New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

)
13.1 2001
 Costa Rica 7.8 2009 (October)
 Independent State of Croatia 16.8 2011 (July)http://www.dzs.hr/Hrv/system/first_results.htm
 Cuba 1.6 2009
 Cyprus 7.4 2011 (May)
 Czech Republic 6.5 2011 (May)
 Denmark 7.4 2011 (May)
 Djibouti 59.0 2007
 Dominica 23.0 2000
 Dominican Republic 14.4 2010 (April)
 East Timor 20.0 2006
 Ecuador 7.7 2010 (Q2)
 Egypt 9.4 2009 (Q4)
 El Salvador 7.2 2009
 Equatorial Guinea 30.0 1998
 Estonia 13.8 2011 (March)
 European Union 9.3 2011 (May)
 Faroe Islands (Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

)
5.9 2010 (May)
 Fiji 8.6 2007
 Finland 7.8 2011 (May)
 Early Modern France 9.5 2011 (May)
 French Polynesia (France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

)
11.7 2007
 Gabon 21.0 2006
 Gaza Strip 37.8 2010
 Georgia (country) 16.9 2009
 Germany 5.8 2011 (September)
 Ghana 3.6 2008 (September)
 Gibraltar (United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

)
3.3 2005
 Greece 18.4 2011 (August)
 Greenland (Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

)
7.8 2009
 Grenada 24.5 2009 (June)
 Guam (United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

)
56 2010 (August)
 Guatemala 3.2 2005
 Guernsey (United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

)
1.5 2010 (Q2)
 Guyana 9.0 2009 (July)
 Honduras 27.8 2007
 Hong Kong (China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

)
3.5 2011 (July)
 Hungary 10.0 2011 (May)
 Iceland 7.6 2010 (June)
 India 9.4 2010 (October)
 Indonesia 6.56 2011 (August)
 Iran 11.5 2011 (Q3)
 Iraq 18.0 2009 (February)
 Republic of Ireland 14.0 2011 (May)
 Isle of Man 1.8 2010 (August)
 Israel 5.4 2011 (June)
 Italy 8.1 2011 (May)
 Jamaica 11.3 2009 (July)
 Japan 4.1 2011 (September)
 Jersey (United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

)
2.7 2009 (July)
 Jordan 11.9 2010 (Q4)
 Kazakhstan 6.1 2010 (May)
 Kenya 40.0 2009
 Kiribati 38.2 2006
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| Kuwait||1.5||2008 (March)
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| Kyrgyzstan||8.2||2008
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| Laos||2.5||2009
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| Latvia||16.2||2011 (March)
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| Lebanon||10.0||2009 (July)
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| Lesotho||22.7||2008
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| Liberia||3.6||2010
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| Libya||13.0||2005 (May)
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| Liechtenstein||1.5||2007 (December)
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| Lithuania||14.8||2011 (Q3)
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| Luxembourg||4.5||2011 (May)
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| Macau (China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

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||3.0||2010 (April)
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| Republic of Macedonia||32.0||2010
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| Malaysia||3.2||2010 (April)
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| Mali||30.0||2004
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| Malta||6.2||2011 (May)
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| Marshall Islands||30.9||1999
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| Mauritania||30.0||2008
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| Mauritius||8.4||2010 (Q1)
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| Mayotte (France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

)
||25.4||2005
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| Mexico||5.5||2010 (April)
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| Federated States of Micronesia||22.0||2000
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| Moldova||9.1||2010 (Q1)
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| Monaco||0.0||2011
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| Mongolia||12.2||2010 (Q1)
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| Kingdom of Montenegro||20.3||2009 (Q4)
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| Montserrat (United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

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||6.0||1998
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| Morocco||10.0||2010 (Q1)
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| Mozambique||60.0||2009
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| Namibia||51.2||2008
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| Nauru||90.0||2004
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| Nepal||46.0||2008
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| Netherlands||4.2||2011 (May)
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| Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

)
||10.0||2008
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|| New Caledonia (France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

)
||17.1||2004
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| New Zealand||6.6||2011 (March)
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| Nicaragua||5.9||2009
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| Nigeria||4.9%||2009 (March)
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| Norway||3.4||2011 (April)
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| Niue (New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

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||10.7||2006
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| Pakistan||15.4||2010
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| Palau||4.2||2005
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| Panama||7.1||2009
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| Papua New Guinea||1.8||2004
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| Paraguay||7.9||2009
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| Peru||7.7||2010 (May)
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| Philippines||7.2||2011 (April)
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| Poland||9.2||2011 (May))
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| Portugal||12.4||2011 (May)
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| Puerto Rico (United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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||16||2011 (June)
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| Qatar||0.5||2009
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| Kingdom of Romania||7.0||2011 (March)
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| Russia||7.6||2011 (January)
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| Saint Helena (United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

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||14.0||1998
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| Saint Kitts and Nevis||4.5||1997
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| Saint Lucia||15.7||2006
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| Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

)
||10.3||1999
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| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines||18.0||2009 (June)
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| San Marino||3.1||2008
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| Saudi Arabia||10.8 (males only)||2010
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| Senegal||48.0; 30% among adults aged 24 and under||2007
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| Serbia||27+||2011 (October)
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| Singapore||1.9||2011 (March)
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| Slovakia||13.3||2011 (May)
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| Slovenia||8.3||2011 (May)
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| South Africa||25.0||2011 (Q3)
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| South Korea||3.7||2010 (April)
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| Spain||21.5||2011 (October)
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| Sri Lanka||5.9||2009 (Q3)
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| Sudan||18.7||2002
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| Suriname||9.5||2004
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| Swaziland||40.6||2007
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| Sweden||7.7||2011 (May)
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| Switzerland||2.9||2010 (June)
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| Syria||9.2||2009
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| Republic of China (Taiwan)||5.14||2010 (May)
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| Tajikistan||60.0||2008 (August)
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| Thailand||1.2||2009 (September)
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| The Bahamas||12.6||2009 (September)
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| Tonga||1.1||2006
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| Trinidad and Tobago||5.8||2009 (Q3)
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| Tunisia||13.3||2009
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| Turkey||9.1 ||2011 (September)
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| Turkmenistan||70.0||2008 (November)
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| Turks and Caicos Islands||5.4||2007
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| Ukraine||9.2||2009 (December)
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| United Arab Emirates||12.7||2008
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| United Kingdom||8.3||2011 (August)
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| United States||9.0||2011 (October)
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| Uruguay||6.1||2011 (January)
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| Uzbekistan||8.0||2008 (December)
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| Vanuatu||78.21||1999
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| Venezuela||8.3||2011 (September)
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| Vietnam||2.9||2009 (April)
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| United States Virgin Islands (United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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||7.9||2010 (April)
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| Wallis and Futuna (France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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||12.2||2008
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| West Bank||17.2||2010
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| Yemen||35.0||2009 (June)
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| Zambia||16.0||2005
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| Zimbabwe||97.0||2009
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