Hanseatic Countries Employment Statistics

Belarus seems to have a strong base of workers to draw from and a very low unemployment rate.  The official rate is less than 1% for the country.  It may be a bit misleading because 6.1% of people called themselves unemployed during a census in 2009.  With that said, Belarus has almost 4.5 million people in their work force.  Seven percent of the country’s population lives below the poverty line.  Of the employed workforce; 46% are in industry, 44% are in services, and 10% are in agriculture.  To read more on the statistics mentioned in this paragraph and on Belarus in general please go to this website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus   

Belgium has an 8.5% unemployment rate with 5.255 million people in their workforce.  Fifteen percent of the country’s population lives below the poverty line.  Of the workforce 80% are in services, 19% are in industry and only 1% work in agriculture.  To read more on the statistics mentioned in this paragraph and on Belgium please go to this website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium

Estonia has a 6.984% unemployment rate with 675,900 people in the countries workforce.  Eighteen percent of the country’s population lives below the poverty line.  Seventy-six percent of the workforce is in services, 20% is in industry, and 4% are in agriculture.  To read more on the statistics mentioned in this paragraph and on Estonia please go to this website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia

Germany has a 3.9% unemployment rate as of November 2016.  There are 43.5 million people in their workforce.  Fifteen percent of the country’s population lives below the poverty line.  Of these employed workers, 74% are in services, 24% in industry, and 2% in agriculture.  To read more on the statistics mentioned in this paragraph and on Germany please go to this website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany

Latvia has a 9.1% unemployment rate with 900,000 people in their workforce.  There are 67% of the workers in services, 24% in industry, and 9% in agriculture.  To read more on the statistics mentioned in this paragraph and on Latvia please go to this website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia

Lithuania has a 7.5% unemployment rate with 1.5 million people in their workforce.  Twenty-two percent of the country’s population lives below the poverty line.  Seventy-four percent of their workforce works in services, 17% in industry, and 9% in agriculture.  To read more on the statistics mentioned in this paragraph and on Lithuania please go to this website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania  

The Netherlands unemployment rate went from 5.4% in 2016 to 5.3% in 2017. In 2011, there were 480 thousand people who were unemployed and 8511 thousand employed people. In 2016, the jobless rate was 6.5%. The unemployed rate in the Netherlands averaged about 5.5% from 2003 to 2017, it was the highest in 2014 at 7.9% and the lowest was 2008 at 3.6%. To read more about the Netherlands’s unemployment rates and to view the graphs, click here: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/netherlands/unemployment-rate

Norway has an unemployment rate of 4.8%. 68% of Norway’s population is employed between the ages of 15-74. 9.5% of the population receives disability pension between the ages of 18-66. The government employs 30# of the laboring force. To learn more about Norway, click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway

In 2016, Poland’s unemployment rate went from 8.30% to 8.70%. Between 1990 and 2017 the unemployment rate has averaged 13.30%, the highest it has been was 20.70% in 2003, and the lowest was .30% in 1990. To read more about Poland’s unemployment rates and to view the graphs, click here: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/poland/unemployment-rate

Russia’s average nominal salary Russia in 2013 was $967 American dollars a month and by 2014 it was $980 American dollars a month. In 2011, about 12.8% of Russians lived below the national poverty line. Unemployment rate went from 12.4% in 1999 to 5.4% in 2014. And the middle class grew from 8 million to 104 million in 13 years. To learn more about Russia, click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia

About 4.5 million residents in Sweden are employed and about a third of them have completed tertiary education. Sweden has a GDP per hours worked was $31 American dollars in 2006. A typical Sweden worker only gets 40% of their labor cost after tax wedges because total tax collected by Sweden peaked to 52.3% in 1990. To learn more about Sweden, click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden

The United Kingdom space industry bought in over 29,000 employees with a growing rate of 7.5% annually. The goal is for the industry to be at 40bn by 2030. This captures 10% share of the 250bn in the world market of commercial space technology. In 2012, United Kingdom unemployment rate rose from 5.2% in 2008 to 7.6%. For young adults between 18-24 years old their employment rates went from 11.9% to 22.5% in 1992 but has since gone down to 14.2% in 2015. 60% of the median household income is the defining poverty line in the UK. Between 2007 and 2008, 13.5 million people lived below the poverty line which is only 22% of the total population. To read more about the United Kingdom, click here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom