Band 5+: The line graph below gives information about the rates of unemployment between 1991 and 2005 in three different countries. The table shows the percentage of men and women in the workforce in the three countries. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph demonstrates percentage of people those without job in Spain, Germany, Italy in 14-year-period, starting from 1991, while the table describes rate of employment of both men and women in Europe in 1991.

The line graph shows that in Germany, there was significant upward trend in rate of unemployment, which had started from 4% and reached peack at 11% in the end of the period. Having remarkably increased, the unemployment rate in Spain remained stable at 18% and then experienced a dramatic drop by nearly 8%. Another interesting point is that unemployment rate of Italy starting with 8% fluctuated and then stopped at the initial percent.

The table emphasizes that in three European countries men are mainly employed opposed to the women. Germany has the most employment rate in both sexes, where roughly three-quarters of men are employed, while only approximately half of women have a job. Two-thirds and one-thirds of women are employed in Spain. And last in Italy , there around three-querters of men and 38% of women have work.