There has been an evolution in recent years. Following Turkey, the countries with the lowest employment rates in the OECD are Italy (62.5%), and the Latin American members: Costa Rica (61.4%), Mexico (63.1%), Colombia (64.4%), and Chile (64.6%). On the other hand, in November, the unemployment rate across the organization remained stable at 5% compared to September, the last month for which comparable data is available, and Spain ceased to be the country with the highest figure, being surpassed by Finland. Specifically, unemployment in Finland increased by two-tenths of a percentage point in November compared to the previous month to 10.6%, while in Spain it decreased by one-tenth to 10.4%. The article 'Ten OECD countries, including Spain, at record employment levels' was first published on La Verdad Panamá. Paris, Jan 15 (EFECOM).- The employment rate across the OECD remained at record levels in the third quarter of 2025, with all-time highs in ten of its member countries, including Spain, which is one of those that has experienced the greatest growth since 2019. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) indicated this Thursday in a statement that the percentage of people with employment among those of working age (15 to 64 years) was 70.3% between July and September of the past quarter for the third consecutive quarter. In that third quarter, records were set since the series began in 2005 in France (69.4%), Greece (64.6%), Hungary (75.2%), Japan (80.1%), South Korea (69.9%), Poland (73.1%), Portugal (74.1%), Spain (67%), and Turkey (55.1%). Spain is one of the countries where the employment rate has increased the most between late 2019 and the third quarter of last year, specifically 3.5 percentage points when the OECD average was 1.4 points. In that period, the largest relative increases in the employed population were in Greece (7.9 points to 64.6%), Poland (5.2 points to 73.1%), and Turkey (4.8 points to 55.1%). However, the country with the lowest employment rate in the OECD is Turkey (55.1%), by a large margin, and this despite being one of the countries with the largest relative increase since 2019. This is because Turkish women barely work in formal jobs, which makes their employment rate the lowest of all.
