Unemployment in Israel

1988 6.4%
1989 8.9%
1990 9.6%
1991 10.6%
1992 11.2%
1993 10%
1994 7.8%*
1995 6.9%
1996 6.7%
1997 7.7%
1998 8.5%
1999 8.9%
2000 8.8%
2001 9.3%
2002 10.4%

*The definition was changed after 1994.

Sources: Israeli Government Press Office, the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, the Israeli Ministry of Finance, and Israel Yearbook and Almanac 1998, (Jerusalem: IBRT Translation/Documenation Ltd., 1998).