The provided line graph indicates the proportions of joblessness in 3 parts of the world between 1993 and 2007.
Over all, while there was an increase in the rate of unemployed people in Japan, the opposite was true in the cases of the UK and the rest of Europe. Additionally, the Eu’s unemployed figure dominated the other two for the majority of the period.
In 1993, only 2% of Japanese people claimed that they do not have a job, which is significantly behind compared to those of the UK and EU with around 9% and 11% respectively. After experiencing a gradual rise to nearly 4% in 1999, the Japan’s joblessness figure boosted to the peak of 6% in 2003 before dropping down to 4% in 2007.
The British’s number, despite being the highest among the three, at about 11%. This data then plummeted to a low of 5% after 8 years before remaining unchanged until 2005, when it saw a slight increase of 1% in the last year.
Meanwhile, the EU followed a similar downtrend, with 9% initially, the reported jobless European overtook the Britain’s figure to become the country with the top underemployment rate at almost 12% in 1997, from then on its statistic decreased steadily and ended up at under 8% in 2007.