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Cocos (Keeling) Islands has an unemployment rate of 60.00% while The United States has 9.30%
This entry contains the percent of the labor force that is without jobs.
Source: CIA World Factbook
With its 596 people Cocos (Keeling) Islands is the 230th largest country in the world by population. It is the 233rd largest country by area with 14 square kilometers. There are 27 coral islands in the group. Captain William KEELING discovered the islands in 1609, but they remained uninhabited until the 19th century. From the 1820s to 1978, members of the CLUNIE-ROSS family controlled the islands and the copra produced from local coconuts. Annexed by the UK in 1857, the Cocos Islands were transferred to the Australian Government in 1955. The population on the two inhabited islands generally is split between the ethnic Europeans on West Island and the ethnic Malays on Home Island.
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