Spain is one of the countries. OECD Which unemployment It fell in February (two tenths to 12.8%), but still has the highest percentage and is farthest away.by far, of the minimum Since the beginning of the historical series in 2001.
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) In a statement on Thursday, The unemployment rate for all its thirty members remained steady at 4.8% in February, It’s the lowest level since his statistics began in 2001.
in February, Unemployment fell or remained stable in more than 70% of these countries, and Spain was among them.. But once again it was the country with the highest number, followed by Costa Rica (latest available statistics, 11.8% in December), Greece (11.4% after rising 1.1 points in just one month) and Colombia (10%, 6, nine) followed. one-tenth less than in January).
First of all, with 12.8%, Spain was far from its May 2007 low of 7.9% (by 4.9 points) and stood out from the rest.
Other countries farthest from historic lows in February were Greece. (3.9 points compared to 7.5% in May 2008), Costa Rica (3.5 points compared to 8.3% in September 2010) and Chile (3 points versus 5.6% in July 2013).
It was in the month six OECD members recording the lowest rates in the series from 2001: Canada (5%), France (7%), Germany (2.9%), South Korea (2.6%) and Slovenia (3.2%), also eurozone (6.6%). Others, such as the United States, were very close (3.6% in February compared to 3.4% in January of the same year).
In absolute terms, Spain was the third most unemployed country in the organization in February, with 3.027 million, down from 3.054 million in January. Only the much larger United States (5,936 million) and Turkey (3,514 million) were ahead of him.