The table provides information how the proportion of unemployment changed across the labour force of nine distinct countries in 1994 and 2024. Overall, while four countries which consists of Poland, Germany, Australia, Japan recorded an increase in the unemployment rate in their labour forces, the opposite was true for other nations’s labour forces.
Concerning countries with increasing trends, the unemployment rate of Poland secured the second position in the first year, standing at 12,4% before surpassing Ireland to become the nation with the highest level of joblessness by 2024, reaching 19%. Germany also experienced an upward trend in its rate of unemployment, but to a lesser extent with the rate climbing from 7% to 9,4%, helping Germany come in second place by the end of period. Starting at lower figures, the proportion of unemployed people in Australia and Japan rose slightly from 5% and 2,7% in 1974 to 5,4% and 4,7% by the final year, respectively.
Turning to the nations that showed declining trends, Ireland began the period in the highest proportion of people without a job, at 14,8%, but saw a drop to 4,4% in 2024, eventually ranked bottom. Despite adopting a similar pattern with the figures fell by 3,4% and 2,9%, the rank of Italy and Canada stayed unchanged during surveyed time. Decreasing at a more pronounced extent, the United Kingdom and the United States witnessed a downward trend from 9,5% and 7,2% to nearly 5% between 1994 and 2004, in that order.