unemployment rate for April 2009 was 8.9%, 0.4 percentage point higher than the previous month and 3.9 percentage points higher than a year earlier. For Japan, the rate was 4.8% in March 2009, 0.4 percentage point higher than the previous month and 1.0 percentage point higher than in March 2008.
In March 2009, the unemployment rate for France was 8.8%, 0.2 percentage point higher than the previous month and 1.2 percentage points higher than a year earlier. For Germany, the rate was 7.6% in
March 2009, 0.2 percentage point higher than the previous month and 0.2 percentage point higher than in March 2008. For Canada, the unemployment rate was 8.0% in April 2009, the same as the previous month and 1.9 percentage points higher than a year earlier. In January 2009, the rate in the United Kingdom was 6.6%, 0.2 percentage point higher than the previous month and 1.5 percentage points higher than in January 2008.
