nam
Communist state

Virgin Islands
NA

Wallis and Futuna
NA

Western Sahara
legal status of territory and issue of sovereignty
unresolved; territory contested by Morocco and Polisario Front
(Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Rio de
Oro), which in February 1976 formally proclaimed a
government-in-exile of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
(SADR),led by President Mohamed ABDELAZIZ; territory partitioned
between Morocco and Mauritania in April 1976, with Morocco acquiring
northern two-thirds; Mauritania, under pressure from Polisario
guerrillas, abandoned all claims to its portion in August 1979;
Morocco moved to occupy that sector shortly thereafter and has since
asserted administrative control; the Polisario's government-in-exile
was seated as an OAU member in 1984; guerrilla activities continued
sporadically, until a UN-monitored cease-fire was implemented 6
September 1991

Yemen
republic

Zambia
republic

Zimbabwe
parliamentary democracy

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@2129 Unemployment rate (%)

Afghanistan
NA (2003)

Albania
15.8% officially; may be as high as 30% (2003 est.)

Algeria
26.2% (2003 est.)

American Samoa
6% (2000)

Andorra
0% (1996 est.)

Angola
extensive unemployment and underemployment affecting more
than half the population (2001 est.)

Anguilla
6.7% (2001)

Antigua and Barbuda
11% (2001 est.)

Argentina
17.3% (2003)

Armenia
20% (2001 est.)

Aruba
0.6% (2003 est.)

Australia
6% (2003)

Austria
4.4% (2003 est.)

Azerbaijan
1.1% (official rate is 1.2%) (2003 est.)

Bahamas, The
6.9% (2001 est.)

Bahrain
15% (1998 est.)

Bangladesh
40% (includes underemployment) (2002 est.)

Barbados
10.7% (2003 est.)

Belarus
2.1% officially registered unemployed (December 2000); large
number of underemployed workers (2003 est.)

Belgium
8.1% (2003 est.)

Belize
9.1% (2002)

Benin
NA

Bermuda
5% (2002 est.)

Bhutan
NA

Bolivia
11.7%
note: widespread underemployment (2003)

Bosnia and Herzegovina
40% (2002 est.)

Botswana
40% (official rate is 21%) (2001 est.)

Brazil
12.3% (2003 est.)

British Virgin Islands
3% (1995)

Brunei
10% (2001 est.)

Bulgaria
14.3% (2003)

Burkina Faso
NA