OECD Countries: Average Tuition Fees & Grants Received (Public Institutions)

This graph shows the average higher edution public tuition fees in dollars for the year 2004/2005. You can see United States was the most expensive country to study in that year. Australia and Japan come in second. Its the cheapest to study in Turkey, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Norway and Denmark.

In Turkey, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands (almost) every student receives a grant. In Belgium and Japan the least number of student receive a grant.

Source: CBS

'The Lost Generation', Youth Unemployment In Eurozone and US

This graph from The Economist compares current youth unemployment rates with the rates before the crisis.

Due to a request by the Economist this graph has been removed. 

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Emerging Market Overheating Index

The Economist made a chart with the developing countries ranking them by the state of their economy. They used several indicators to identify whether the economy is overheating or not.

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IMF WEO Spring 2011: Unemployment

IMF WEO Spring 2011: Unemployment (latest unemployment rate minus six-year average before the crisis)

Unemployment rate modified for the 'normal' unemployment rate, which gives cyclical unemployment.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2011/01/c1/fig1_19.pdf

AR: Argentina; AU: Australia; BR: Brazil; CA: Canada; CN: China; DE: Germany; EU: euro area; FR: France; GB: United Kingdom; ID: Indonesia; IT: Italy; JP: Japan; KR: Korea; MX: Mexico; RU: Russia; TR: Turkey; US: United States; ZA: South Africa.


Conclusion: the United States unemployment rate is relatively high.