The graph below shows the unemployment rates in the US and Japan between March 1993 and March 1999

The given line graph compares the

unemployment

rates in the

USA

and

Japan

from

March

1993 to

March

1999. As an

overall

trend, the

USA

succeeded to decrease its

unemployment

rate

over

the

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time

while

the scenario was completely

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in

Japan

despite its initial ignorable

rate

of

unemployment

. As can be seen from the given illustration, the

unemployment

rate

in the

USA

was just over 7% in

March

1993

while

it was less than 2.5% in

Japan

.

However

,

this

rate

kept on decreasing in the

USA

while

it went up in

Japan

. In two years, the percentage of jobless Americans fall to just below 5.5%

while

it increased in

Japan

and stood at 3.0% at the same time. The opposite trend of the line graph depicts that

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rate

in the

USA

gradually declined

while

increased

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in the case of

Japan

. The rates of joblessness in these two countries intersected between

March

1998 and

March

1999 when the

unemployment

rate

in both countries was just about 4.5%.

At the end

of 1998, the percentage of

unemployment

among

the

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Americans became less than that of

Japan

. The data

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that jobless people’s percentage in the

USA

was just above 4.0 in 1999

while

this

rate

in

Japan

reached

to

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over 4.5% which was more than double

than

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the initial

rate

of their

unemployment

.