The diagram underneath illustrates the rate of unemployment in Ireland and the frequency of migration during the period of 1988 to 2008. Overall, the trend shown is clearly downward. It displays the unemployment rate and frequency of migration in 1998 on the left and in 2008 on the right. Overall, unemployment rate has gradually decreased over the years compared to the migration rate. The image shows that the trend of the graph is clearly downward, with a few slight fluctuations.
The migration rate reached its peak, which was approximately 70,000 people, during the year 1990. Then, it gradually decreased as time passed, it reached an all time low, which was about 30,000 people, before it slowly rosed. During the year 2008, the migration rate had increased to 40,000.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate continuously increased during 1990 to 1995, reaching 16% at some point. After that, it gradually fell till it reached 4% during the year 2000, staying stable until 2006 where it experienced a rise.
