The graph illustrates data about the rates of people who were unemployed in five different nations, including Germany, Greece, Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom from 2005 to 2010.
Overall, what stands out from the graph is that there was an upward trend in unemployment rates over the five years. However, the figures for Germany saw a dramatic fall at the end of the period.
In Spain, unemployment rates demonstrated greater changes than the other countries during the period. The figures started at 9%, and after that there was a rapid increase to over 20% in 2010. On the contrary, the UK’s unemployment rates went slightly up by only around 2.5%.
Over the period between 2005 and 2007, unemployment figures of most countries had a negligible decline. The UK’s unemployment rates began at under 5% in 2005 and just finished at over 5% in 2007, whereas the figures for Ireland and Greece remained constant in the first three years.
In conclusion, the country with the biggest difference between the five countries in Europe was Spain, which reached the highest unemployment rates in 2010, while Germany had the lowest figures.