| Small countries with low unemployment rate: | | | | dependence on agriculture while it is developing its |
| Andorra which is a country with a population of | | | | mineral and petroleum reserves. |
| 71,822 has an unemployment rate of 0.00%. Now, | | | | United States unemployment rate is not the |
| how does this country do this? The answer to | | | | highest: |
| this is since World War II through its tourist | | | | While the United States has a population of over |
| industry, many immigrants both legal and illegal | | | | 300 million and an unemployment rate of 5.5% |
| have been attracted to the thriving economy with | | | | most know that if you can make it to the US, it |
| its lack of income taxes. Now this leads to | | | | is by far the best place to live. You have lots of |
| another country that has the same | | | | freedom to do almost anything you want to do. |
| unemployment rate of 0.00% by the name of | | | | The US has a steady growth in building and a |
| Monaco. Many of us have heard of this country | | | | rapid advance of technology. The US remains the |
| that has a population of 33,000. Economic | | | | world's most powerful nation. Another country |
| development was spurred in the late 19th century | | | | with a 40.0% unemployment rate and a |
| with a railroad linkup to France and the opening of | | | | population of 31 million is Afghanistan. This country |
| a casino. Since then, the principality's mild climate, | | | | served as a buffer between the British and |
| splendid scenery, and gambling facilities have made | | | | Russian empires until it won independence from |
| Monaco world famous as a tourist and recreation | | | | British control in 1919. A brief experiment in |
| center. | | | | democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 |
| Much larger countries with mid range | | | | Communist counter-coup. The Soviet Union |
| unemployment rates: | | | | invaded in 1979 to support the tottering Afghan |
| As the dominant industrial and maritime power of | | | | Communist regime, touching off a long and |
| the 19th century, the United Kingdom (UK) played | | | | destructive war. |
| a leading role in developing parliamentary | | | | The USSR withdrew in 1989 under relentless |
| democracy and in advancing literature and science. | | | | pressure by internationally supported |
| The British Empire stretched over one-fourth of | | | | anti-Communist Mujahedin rebels. Subsequently, a |
| the earth's surface. The first half of the 20th | | | | series of civil wars saw Kabul finally fall in 1996 to |
| century saw the UK's strength seriously depleted | | | | the Taliban, a hard-line Pakistani-sponsored |
| in two World Wars and the Irish republic withdraw | | | | movement that emerged in 1994 to end the |
| from the union. The second half witnessed the | | | | country's civil war and anarchy. Following the 11 |
| dismantling of the Empire and the UK rebuilding | | | | September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York |
| itself into a modern and prosperous European | | | | City, a US, Allied, and anti-Taliban Northern Alliance |
| nation. As one of five permanent members of | | | | military action toppled the Taliban for sheltering |
| the UN Security Council the UK pursues a global | | | | Osama BIN LADIN. The UN-sponsored Bonn |
| approach to foreign policy. The UK is currently | | | | Conference in 2001 established a process for |
| weighing the degree of its integration with | | | | political reconstruction that included the adoption |
| continental Europe. The UK has an unemployment | | | | of a new constitution and a presidential election in |
| rate of 2.9% with a population of 60,776,238. | | | | 2004, and National Assembly elections in 2005. On |
| Another country with an unemployment rate of | | | | 7 December 2004, Hamid KARZAI became the |
| 3.0% with a third of the population of the UK | | | | first democratically elected president of |
| (27,780,059) is Uzbekistan which is a Russia | | | | Afghanistan. |
| conquered country in the late 19th century. Stiff | | | | In conclusion, unemployment rates from 40.00% |
| resistance to the Red Army after World War I | | | | in counties with 30 million people and 0.00% in |
| was eventually suppressed and a socialist republic | | | | countries with 75,000 people all truly have the |
| set up in 1924. Intensive production of 'white gold' | | | | same goal. We all want everyone to be financially |
| or (cotton) and grain led to overuse of chemicals | | | | free or at least financially stable. Many people |
| and the depletion of water supplies. This left the | | | | have computers and internet connections so you |
| land poisoned and the Aral Sea and certain rivers | | | | are able to work at home even if the economy in |
| half dry. The country seeks to gradually lessen its | | | | your country is not stable. |