The graph compares employment rates in three sectors in economy, in the UK, 2000-2010

The diagram illustrates the percentages of people having jobs in 3 categories of the UK's economy from 2000 to 2010

Overall

, there was a downtrend in the proportion of workers in the private part during the surveyed period. At the same time, the rates of state and self-employees increased a little bit. In 2000, the economic sector dominated the UK's economy with the highest employment rate of approximately 50%. Over time, the labour force in

this

area steadily reduced compared with the other categories when

at the end

of the observed duration,

this

type only accounted for roughly one-fifth of the whole country's population, ranked third.

On the other hand

, the two remaining types showed a different trend. The government sector witnessed a slight rise in the labour proportion from below 40% at the beginning to nearly half of the population in 2005.

This

growth was followed by a fluctuation in the

last

5 years of the period and

this

zone finished on top of the rankings with more than 50%. Sharing the same tendency, the percentage of freelancers and capitalists gradually increased from the bottom at less than 20% to surpass the private zone in the middle of 2007 and ended up at 30% in 2010, occupying second place.