The 10 Countries With The Highest Unemployment Rates

Dan Fastenberg
Updated
10 countries with worse unemployment than the U.S.
10 countries with worse unemployment than the U.S.



America's unemployment rate remains stubbornly high at 7.8 percent, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics, released in December 2012. But that figure represents a vast improvement from the worst of the recession, when the tally stood at 10 percent in October 2009.

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