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Coronavirus: how job losses compare across the world

Pandemic job losses and furloughs compared across the world
Japan: 0.01% of jobs lost
Mexico: 0.06% of jobs lost
Finland: 0.2% of jobs lost
Poland: 0.6% of jobs lost
Colombia: 0.6% of jobs lost
Germany: 0.6% of jobs lost
China: 0.6% of jobs lost
Turkey: 0.7% of jobs lost
Sweden: 0.7% of jobs lost
Greece: 0.8% of jobs lost
Norway: 1% of jobs lost
Brazil: 1% of jobs lost
Denmark: 1.1% of jobs lost
South Korea: up to 1.8% of jobs lost
Spain: 2% of jobs lost
Iceland: 2.2% of jobs lost
Australia: 2.3% of jobs lost
Netherlands: 3.6% of jobs lost
Israel: 6.3% of jobs lost
UK: 7.5% of jobs lost
The Caribbean: at least 11% of jobs lost
Russia: 14% of jobs lost
Austria: 14% of jobs lost
Canada: 15% of jobs lost
US: 24.7% of jobs lost
India: 25% of jobs lost
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Pandemic job losses and furloughs compared across the world

Four out of five workers around the world – that's around 2.7 billion jobs – have had their workplace fully or partly closed by the coronavirus pandemic, and many people have been furloughed or lost their jobs. Governments around the world are working to try to stem the flow of job losses, with wage replacement and other programs to help avoid unemployment and keep people in work. Click or scroll through as we look at how successful, or not, they have been.

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Nicole Robinson

27 May 2020

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