 Additionally, the rate counts as unemployed those who have been hired for a job but have not yet started active work.Eurostat uses the same harmonized definition of unemployment for all countries in the EU, based on the definition of the International Labour Organization.This definition is similar to the one used by GUS but considers people between 15 and 74, rather than 17 and 74, years of age, and counts the unemployed as a percentage of the labor force.