OECD Regions at a Glance 2016
OECD Regions at a Glance shows how regions and cities contribute to national economic growth and well-being. This edition updates more than 40 region-by-region indicators to assess disparities within countries and their evolution over the past 15 years. The report covers all the OECD member countries and, where data are available, Brazil, People’s Republic of China, Colombia, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Peru, the Russian Federation and South Africa.
New to this edition:
- A comprehensive picture of well-being in the 391 OECD regions based on 11 aspects that shape people's lives: income, jobs, housing, education, health, environment, safety, civic engagement and governance, access to services, social connections, and life satisfaction.
- Recent trends in subnational government finances and indicators on how competencies are allocated and co-ordinated across levels of governments.
Jobs
Unemployment has soared in OECD countries in the years after the economic crisis and, although it partially recovered, the unemployment rate in 2014 was 7.3 in the OECD area, still 1.7 points higher than in 2007. In 2014, the difference in unemployment rates among all OECD regions was above 30 percentage points, almost 10 percentage points higher than the difference in unemployment among OECD countries. The largest regional disparities in unemployment rates were found in Turkey, Spain, Italy and Belgium ().
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