The Organization for Economic Co- operation and Development (OECD)members registered 8.8-percent jobless rate in November 2009, according to the latest report released on Monday.
The data showed that the unemployment rate for OECD members was even with the previous month and 2.1 percentage points higher than a year earlier.
In the Euro area, the unemployment rate was 10.0 percent in November 2009, 0.1 percentage point up from October and 2.0 percentage points higher than November 2008.
For France, the rate was 10.0 percent, 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous month and 1.7 percentage points higher than a year earlier while the jobless rate in Germany was 7.6
percent in November 2009, the same as the previous month and 0.5 percentage point higher than in November 2008.
The unemployment rate for Italy was 8.3 percent, 0.1 percentage point higher than the previous month and 1.2 percentage points higher than a year earlier.
The latest December data in this release also showed a stable unemployment rate for the United States with 10.0 percent and Canada with 8.5 percent.
The Paris-based OECD said in its latest Economic Outlook that the jobless rate is expected to peak in the first half of 2010 in the United States, but it may not be until 2011 that
unemployment begins to fall in Europe.