The line graph illustrates the proportions of unemployed recent graduates and young people without a degree ages 21 to 30 between 1990 and 2015.
Overall, it can be clearly seen that unemployment rates among non-graduates were consistently higher than those of recent graduates throughout the period. In addition, both groups showed a downward trend from 1990 to 2005 before the figure rose again towards 2015.
Looking at the details, in 1990 the unemployment rate for non-graduates stood at approximately 14%, compared to 10% for recent graduates. Then, in 1995, the unemployment rates for both non-graduates and recent graduates fell slightly to around 12% and 9% respectively. After that, the proportion of unemployed non-graduates continued to fall steadily to about 8% in 2005, while the figure for graduates dropped more sharply to about 5% in 2000 before remaining stable until 2005.
After 2005, the figure of both groups began to rise again. The percentage of unemployed non-graduates increased gradually to about 9% in 2010 before reaching roughly 14% in 2015. Similarly the figure for recent graduates stayed stable at 5% until 2010, after which it climbed to about 9% by the end of the period