The line graph compares the levels of unemployment in England among young adults and the ovarall population from 1993 to 2010.
Overall, it is clear that the unemployment rates of four categories decreased considerably in 1990s and increased rapidly from 2000 onwards. Additonally, the unemployment rate among people aged 16 – 24 years old were significantly higher than the overall population. While the overall population unemployment rate in London were consistently higher than in the rest of England.
At the beginning, in 1993, while the proportion of unemployed young people in London stood at around 23% – becoming the highest rate at this time, the figure for the rest of outside London was at 18% which was the second largest rate. Nevertheless, in the next year, these figures declined steadily before increasing shaprly from 2000s onwards. Specifically, people who were unemployed at young ages in London reached their peak at 26%, whereas young people living outside London reached a high of around 20%.
In contrast, in 1993, people without jobs living in London stood at at 13% compare with 10% in the rest of England . It then went up slightly and finally reach a low of 8%. For those living in outside London also experienced a slight decline until 2002 before rising gradually to 7% and remained stable until 2010.