The given line chart illustrates how unemployment rates changed in five certain nations, namely Germany, Greece, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain between 2005 to 2010.
Overall, it is noticeable that the unemployment rates of almost all countries experienced upward trends, with an exception of Germany. Initially, Germany had the highest rate in joblessness but this figure was surpassed by Spain at the end of the period.
Looking first at Germany and Spain, about 12% of people in Germany could not find jobs in 2005, the highest rate among five countries at that time. This figure showed a dramatic decrease to around 6% at the end of the period, the lowest rank in 2010. While Spain was the third rank of employment rate in 2005, stood at 10%, before significant increasing to around 20% in 2010. The percentage of Spain’s unemployment overtook that of Germany, becoming the highest rate at the half end of the period.
Moving on to the remaining nations, in 2005, the joblessness rate of Greece was 10%, two times as much as that of the United Kingdom and Ireland. After 3 years, the jobless rate of Greece dropped by 3%, recovering to over 13% by 2010. As for the United Kingdom and Ireland, the unemployment rate of both countries generally remained unchanged until 2008, there was a remarkable growth in jobless rate from over 5% to 15%, twice as the unemployment rate of the United Kingdom in 2010.