Ireland was one of only two countries to record a fall in unemployment in November of last year, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation.
The country’s unemployment rate fell by 0.2 percentage points to 10.7% during the month, with unemployment in Slovakia also falling by 0.2 percentage points to 12.6% in November.
Most of the remaining countries using the Euro reported stable unemployment levels, according to the OECD, bar Portugal, which saw its rate rise by 0.3 percentage points to 13.9%.
This left the unemployment rate in the Euro area as a whole stable at 11.5%.
Elsewhere in the world, unemployment rose slightly in both Canada and the United states, both up 0.1 percentage points to 6.6% and 5.8% respectively.
Japan’s unemployment rate held steady in November at 3.5%.
The OECD figures also cover youth unemployment, which stood at 23.7% in November in the euro zone as a whole, down 0.1 percentage points on October.
Ireland’s rate was down 0.3 percentage points to 21.8%; compared to a rate of 53.% in Spain, 43.9% in Italy and 34.5% in Portugal.
