The provided chart compares the ratios between the proportion of jobless people aged 15 to 24 years old and the overall unemployment rate among five European nations in 2005.
It is clear that the percentages of 15-to-24-year-old people laid off were higher than the figure for total population in all countries examined. Additionally, Poland recorded the highest unemployment rates, while the opposite was true for Denmark.
In Poland, there were over 35% of young people having no work, more than half compared to the overall unemployment rate, at exactly 15%. Besides, about 24% of young Italian people in the range from 15 to 24 years old were jobless when the proportion of unemployed individuals who were in their mids to early twenties in Hungary was about 16%. The overall joblessness rates in those two countries were quite similar, both accounted for under 10%.
In this year, Denmark witnessed the same pattern although only few Danish did not have a job. Just about 8% of young Danish residents aged 15 to 24 years old were jobless, which quadrupled the total unemployed population rate (about 2%). Regarding Germany’s data, the overall unemployment rate recorded at exactly 10% and the figure for young Germans was at just shy of 15%.