U.S. and Costa Rica unemployment rates

http://www.ticotimes.net/topstoryarchive/2009_02/022009.htm

According to Gillian Gillers, Tico Times Staff, 25,000 people have lost their jobs between November and January. According to Wikipedia, Costa Rica has a current population of 4,016,173 persons.

According to the New York Times, in the last four months, 2 million jobs have been lost in the United States. According to the United States Government, the U.S. has a current population of 303,824,640 persons.

When you divide this up, the percentage of people that lost their jobs in Costa Rica is .62% and the percent of people that lost their jobs in the United States is .65%. The percentages are very close and this shows that both the United States and Costa Rica are feeling the recession equally in a sense.