The given line graph outlines the proportion of employees who missed work for one or more days due to health reasons in five distinct European nations over the period of one decade, spanning at 1991.
Overall, what stands out from the graph is that while the figures for Netherlands, Sweden, and UK witnessed an upward trend, the tendency for France and Germany showed a contrasting pattern. Notably, the Netherlands had the highest statistics; the opposite was true for Germany’s figure.
As the graph suggests, the ratio of workers absent for one or more days in the Netherlands showed a slight growth from under 5.00% in 1991 to approximately 5.50% in 1992. Moreover, the Netherland’s data declined sharply, falling by roughly 4.20% in 1996, before climbing by 1.00% in 2001. On top of that, from 1991 to 1995, the figure for Sweden fluctuated around 3.00%. After which, it experienced a rapid improvement to about 4.60% in 2001. As for the UK, there was no significant difference between 1991 and 2001, under 2.00%.
On the other hand, people who missed work one or more days in France began the period with the highest rate, at over 5.00% in 1991, then it decreased considerably to 3.00% until the end of the period. Apart from that, Germany’s figure always took up the lowest percentage, over the course of ten years, starting in 1991, at just under 2.00%.