The proportion of unemployment is depicted in the line chart below in America and Japan over 60 years. It is clear from the graph that both countries’ percentages were going in the opposite direction.
According to what is shown, the USA and Japan had started at around 7% and 2.5% respectively. As there was a significant dip in the unemployment ratio in the USA during the first three years, there was a gradual climb in Japan’s ratio.
Thereafter the USA’s proportion fluctuated wildly at about 5.5 percent until nearly the beginning of 1997, while the proportion in Japan was increasing in the same period. Consequently the two countries’ ratio continued its usual behavior until March-1999 when Japan exceeded the USA at about 4.5% and 4% respectively.
To sum up, we could say that the number of unemployed people increased for Japan and dropped for America throughout the period until 1999 when Japan was almost 0.5 percent more than the USA.