Germany's official unemployment statistics count slightly more than 5 million as "unemployed," slightly more than 2 million as on welfare/workfare, and 600,000 aging adults as "students" in government retraining programs. That's 7.6 million unemployed in a nation of 82 million people (9.2% of the overall population, 18% of their working-age married/single population).
To put that in perspective, the U.S., with 300 million citizens, has a mere 7.7 million unemployed (5.2% of our working age population).