The graph presented here shows the percentage of unemployment in the United States and in Britain from 2008 to 2015.
The rate have been collected monthly, every January of every year. In 2008, the US and Britain were at the same point with an unemployment rate of approximately 5% . During the following two years, both rates increased significantly, more for the US than Britain. Indeed, it peaked at almost 10% for the US rather at 8% for Britain just after 2010. After that, both lines decrease.
In 2012, the graph reports that Britain and the US came back to a similar rate of unemployement of around 8 %. Between 2012 and 2015, the employment got better as the unemployment clearly decrease up to just under 6%.
The figures on this graph depicts an important incrementation of the unemployment around the 2010 crisis however il it noticeable also how that rate dropped through thefollowing years.