The line chart below compares the percentage of unemployment and the volumes of departures in Ireland during the period of 1988 to 2008.
Overall, there was significant variation in percentage of unemployment across different years, with the highest rates occurring in Ireland in 1992. There was a shift in 1995 towards unemployment rate ,resulting in a evident inverse relationship between the percent of unemployment and the number of exodus. While the unemployment rate has changed, the total number of Irish who left the country has stayed the same.
In details, the unemployment rate fluctuated remarkably between 10% and 18% and showed a downward trend throughout the period from 1988 to 1995. In contrast, there was a slightly fluctuation which changed with the range of 9000 and 11000 in the figure of exodus in the first eight years. The year of 1990 witnessed a considerable rise of the proportion of unemployment, and then a peak of 18% took place in 1991, followed by a sharp fall over the next five years.
In addition, as unemployment has fallen, the number of people leaving Ireland has increased. To be specific, the figure of people leaving this country accounted for 11%, roughly 50000 people, in 1995, highlighting its dominance in two types of data. This ranking remained the same during the remaining 14 years. Nonetheless, unemployment rate continued to fall until 1996(7%) and maintained a stable pattern at around 7% from 1996 to 2004, when it started to show a slight upward trend. In 2008, the unemployment rate showed a parallel trend with the number of people leaving Ireland(11% and 50000people)