The given table illustrates the unemployment rate in the total labour work force in nine nations from 1994 to 2004.
Overall, there was an downside trend in the percentage of people unemployed in most countries except for Poland, Germany and Japan.
Ireland which was ranked first in uneployment rate with 14.8% in 1994 dropped to 4.4% in 2004 while the first runner-up in 1994 which was Poland increased from 12.4% in 1994 to 19% in 2004, became the first contributor. Starting at 11.8% and 10.6% respectively in 1994, the figures for Italy and Canada both experienced a decline about 3% in 2004.
The figure for the UK which was 9.5% in 1994, nearly halved in 2004. In contrast, that of Japan in 2004 mostly doubled it in 1994 which was 2.7%. In 1994, compared to the figure of the USA which was 7.2%,that of Australia was 2.2% lower, both of them then reached 5.4% in 2004. Meanwhile, there was an considerable increase in the proportion of people unemployed of Germany from 7% in 1994 to 9.4% in 2004, making this nation to be second contributor after the change.