Band 6+: The chart below shows the percentage of unemployed people aged between 15 and 24 in five European countries in 2005, compared with the overall percentage of unemployment in those countries.

The chart depicts the unemployment rates of young individuals aged 15-24 as well as the entire workforce in five Euroupean countries in 2005.

In general, what stands out from chart is that the youth unemployment rates were always higher that those one of the overall. Besides, Poland ranked the first in both the categories while Denmark came last.

Turning to the three nations with the highest proportion in than chart, Poland has the rates of jobless young people of around 35%, followed by Italy with nearly 15% lower. Poland was also recorded as the country with the biggest gap between the young and overall unemployent percentages, about 20%. Meanwhile, the national jobless rate of Italy and Hungary was the same (7%), however, the number of unemployed young individuals of Hungary was much lower, only occupied 15% of the total.

For the remained two countries, the lowest countrywide unemployment percentage was found 2.5% in Demark, which was four times smaller than Germany’s 10% regarding the mentioned rates. Additionally, the youth jobless rate of Demark was 7% that was only a half of that one in Germany