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The Euro area unemployment rate remained steady at 9.8% in October 2009, the same level as in the previous month.


For the EU27 countries as a whole, the unemployment rate rose slightly to 9.3% which compares with 9.2% for September 2009 and 7.3% October last year.

Among the Member States, the lowest unemployment rates were recorded in the Netherlands (3.7%) and Austria (4.7%), and the highest rates in Latvia (20.9%) and Spain (19.3%).

In October 2009, the youth unemployment rate (under-25s) was 20.6% in the euro area and 20.7% in the EU27. The lowest rate was observed in the Netherlands (7.2%), and the highest rates in Spain (42.9%) and Latvia (33.6% in the third quarter of 2009).

As a comparison with the rest of the world, in October 2009, the unemployment rate was 10.2% in the USA and 5.1% in Japan.