Economic Co-operation: Summitry, Institutions, and Structural Change

by John Kirton

TABLE D Unemployment Rates, Civilian Labor Force Basis, Approximating U.S. Concepts, Seasonally Adjusted, 1975-1997
	US	Japan	Germany	France	Italy	UK	Canada
1975	8.5	1.9	3.4	4.2	3.4	4.6	6.9
1976	7.7	2.0	3.4	4.6	3.9	5.9	7.2
1977	7.1	2.0	3.4	5.2	4.1	6.4	8.1
1978	6.1	2.3	3.3	5.4	4.1	6.3	8.4
1979	5.8	2.1	2.9	6.1	4.4	5.4	7.5
1980	7.1	2.0	2.8	6.5	4.4	7.0	7.5
1981	7.6	2.2	4.0	7.6	4.9	10.5	7.6
1982	9.7	2.4	5.6	8.3	5.4	11.3	11.0
1983	9.6	2.7	6.9*	8.6	5.9	11.8	11.9
1984	7.5	2.8	7.1	10.0	5.9	11.8	11.3
1985	7.2	2.6	7.2	10.5	6.0	11.2	10.5
1986	7.0	2.8	6.6	10.6	7.5*	11.2	9.6
1987	6.2	2.9	6.3	10.8	7.9	10.3	8.9
1988	5.5	2.5	6.3	10.3	7.9	8.6	7.8
1989	5.3	2.3	5.7	9.6	7.8	7.3	7.5
1990	5.6*	2.1	5.0	9.1	7.0	7.0	8.1
1991	6.8	2.1	4.3 #	9.6	6.9*	8.9	10.4
1992	7.5	2.2	4.6 #	10.4*	7.3 #	10.1	11.3
1993	6.9	2.5	5.7 #	11.8	10.2* #	10.5	11.2
1994	6.1*	2.9	6.5 #	12.3	11.3 #	9.6 #	10.4
1995	5.6	3.2	6.5 #	11.7	12.0 #	8.8 #	9.5
1996	5.4	3.4	7.2 #	12.5 #	12.1 #	8.3 #	9.7
1997	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
I	5.3	NA	NA	NA	12.3	7.5	9.6
*Break in Series. U.S. (1990, 1994), France (1992), Germany (1983), Italy (1986, 1991, 1993). These breaks are reflective of changes in methods of calculations. # Preliminary. Source: Bureaus of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, May 1997.