Following the onset of the crisis, the share of the population in receipt of unemployment benefits has increased in all countries for which data are available, but the magnitude of the increase and its time profile differ from country to country. For countries such as Estonia, Ireland, New Zealand, Spain and the United States, where the crisis and its impact on the labour market has been particularly deep and long, the share of the working-age population in receipt of unemployment benefits has more than doubled.39 By contrast, the increase was marginal in Mexico, Japan, Poland and Sweden, although Sweden had a significant increase in unemployment. In 13 of the 34 OECD countries, the number of UB recipients has already begun to decline from its post-crisis peak, but the recipiency rates remain significantly higher than before the crisis in most countries and Germany is the only country where the rise has been totally reversed.