The line chart indicates the proportion of unemployment in the USA and Japan from March 1993 to March 1999.
Overall, the unemployment rates of two countries the US and Japan experienced different trends during the recorded period, decreasing and increasing, respectively. However, the portions of work force of these two nations almost equal during the last year of 1999.
Japan started with the lowest percentage at 2.5% in March of 1993, while this rate was three times higher in the USA at 7%. During the next year there were dramatic changes in both countries, but in different trends, increasing to just around 4% in Japan, decreasing to 6% in the US. From then on, the USA’s rate of unemployment slightly continued its falling, and reached 5% in the beginning of 1998. In the contrast to Japan’s , where this rate was rapidly going up and reached 4.5% in the beginning of 1998.
In the middle of spring 1998 these two rates leveled at just above 5% in two countries. Afterwards, the percentage of unemployed people in both countries began fluctuate unremarkably and at the end of the recorded period they showed the same rate of 5%.