Increase of 3 million jobs in Europe
Between summer 2006 and summer 2007 the number of jobs in the European Union has increased by three million. In total there are 222 million jobs. Europe has about 500 million citizens of which 325 million are employed aged 15-64.
The job increase is especially established by economic growth in Germany, Poland and Spain.
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The creation of new jobs is the strongest in Eastern European countries.
In Q3 the unemployment rate has decreased in almost all EU countries to, on average, 7.1 percent. Poland has the strongest decrease: with 4.2 percent (to 9.1 percent of the working population.) In 2005 8.7% of the labour force was unemployed, compared with 5.1% in the United States.
The development of the unemployment rates in Europe equals figures in the United States and Japan, respectively 4.6 and 3.8 percent in Q3.