> Sorry, but knowing the way many countries count unemployment, that doesn't mean shit. In my country, you're only part of the unemployment statistics if you re

> Sorry, but knowing the way many countries count unemployment, that doesn't mean shit. In my country, you're only part of the unemployment statistics if you receive unemployment benefits and only that. There are standardised ways to measure unemployment and all major countries provide the necessary data to measure them in a comparable way, even if they might choose to highlight different measurement types. So when the OECD reports on unemployment rates they do so in a harmonised way that uses the same definition for all. e.g. https://data.oecd.org/unemp/unemployment-rate.htm https://data.oecd.org/unemp/unemployment-rate.htm Another example is that Eurostat defines actively working as having at least one hour of work a week, just in order to create a useful basis for comparison. The Netherlands defines it as at least 12 hours a week, so the commonly published Dutch number will be different than the Eurostat one. It doesn't matter though because the underlying data is still available for a direct comparison.