The given line graph illustrates the proportion of self-employed labors of the overall workforce in five countries between 1998 and 2000.
Overall, it is steadily apparent that while the percentage of freelance workers in Russian Republic, Slovakia, and Czech Republic witnessed an upward trend, the opposite was true for the other nation during the period shown. Noticeable, Turkey recorded the highest self-employed workers percentages.
Russian and Czech Republic exhibited a minimal rise in the share of self-employed individuals. In detail, in the initial year, the data for the Russian Republic stood at a small portion of around 5%, whereas the Czech rate was significantly higher at around 15%. Over the next two years, the data for these countries slightly increased of 3% to about 8% and 18%, each. In contrast, Slovakia experienced a considerable growth from nearly 7% to about 12% during the same period.
Turning to the other nations, although both Greece and Turkey saw a downward trajectory in the share of self-employed individuals of total workforce, the proportions of these nations were different. Specifically, a slight decrease can be seen in the data for Greece, which reached initially over 40%, declined by 7% in 2000. Conversely, this figure for Turkey plummeted from approximately 55% to just under 40% between 1998 and 2000. Although a dramatic decline, the Turkey’s rate retained the highest in the proportion of self-employed labors.