The bar chart below shows the percentage of unemployed graduates aged 20-24, in one European country over a two-year period.

The bar chart provides information about graduate

unemployment

rates by gender within a two-year

period

.

Overall

, even though there is a considerable difference both of them followed an increasing tendency

at the end

of the

period

. Both countries' graduate

unemployment

rates had fluctuations. Men's

unemployment

proportion outraced

women

's every time the survey was conducted. As far as men are concerned, their

unemployment

rate was about 10% in January 2008, being higher than

women

's rate by approximately 3 %.

Then

it declined to about 7% in April and remained there until July.

Subsequently

, the portion of men climbed to roughly 16% in October 2008 and followed the opposite tendency and reached 12% in 2009 and continued until April

however

declined slightly in July. The

last

period

of the survey showed hitting a high point of about 23%. When it comes to

women

, the percentage of

unemployment

was 8% in January 2008, and it went down to 6% in April and remained stable in July.

However

, the figure observed peaked at 11% in October and declined steadily respectively in January 2009 and April. The

portion

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of

women

rose to 10% and increased 14%

at the end

of the

period

.