The given graph illustrates the proportion of Ireland’s unemployment and the number of people leaving the country from 1988 to 2008.
Overall, an upward trend was seen in the number of residents leaving Ireland, while it was the opposite trend for the percentage of unemployed people.
According to the graph, the number of people leaving Ireland underwent a fluctuating pattern over 10 years since 1998. In 1988, the number of people leaving Ireland stood at roughly 40,000 before witnessing an impressive jump to approximately 75,000 in 1990. Then the data went through a variation up to 20,000 after inclined sharply back to under 40,000 a year after 1990 and reached the lowest at around 20,000 in 2000 before ending at above 40,000 people in 2008.
Regarding the percentage of unemployment, there were roughly 17% of unemployed people in 1998 before declining gradually to above 12% in 1990. After that, the figure saw a significant drop to under 6% in 2000 after progressively rising by 3%. Afterwards, it witnessed a minor fluctuation until it jumped noticeably to roughly 9% in 2008.