The chart below shows the unemployment rate and the number of people leaving Ireland from 1988 to 2008. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The line chart illustrates the proportion of unemployed

people

,

as well as

the

number

of emigrants from

this

country from 1998 to 2008.

Overall

, there were downward trends in the level of unemployment in the

period

,

while

the figure for

people

leaving Ireland experienced a

little

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small

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increase compared to the first year of the

period

.

To begin

with, the proportion of those who were unemployed witnessed a sharp decrease from 1998 to 2002. In detail, there were under 17% of unemployed individuals in the year 1998,

then

significantly dropped to over 12%.

However

,

this

rate quickly soared to nearly the same level of 1998, before declining to under 6%. A similar tendency could be seen in the

number

of Ireland’s emigrants.

While

the

number

showed a significant increase from around 30,000

people

to 60,000

people

in the first 2 years of the

period

, the

number

of

people

choosing to leave Ireland was 3 times lower than that in the previous year. Looking at the rest, the

period

from 2000 to 2008, these lines experienced upward trends.

Firstly

, Ireland’s rate of unemployment slightly went up and finished at the rate of roughly 10%.

Moreover

, individuals leaving the island nation slowly was broadly stable at around 20,000

people

before a sharp uptick over the final four years at the level of up to 40,000

people

.