The graph below shows the unemployment rates in the UK, the rest of Europe and Japan from 1993 to 2007.

The line graph illustrates changes in the proportions of unemployed

people

in three different parts of the world from 1993 to 2007.

Overall

,

it is clear that

while

Japan

witnessed an upward trend in the unemployment rate, the opposite was true for the

UK

and other regions in the

EU

.

Also

noticeable is that there were significantly more

people

in the

EU

being unemployed compared to their counterparts for the majority of the timeframe.

Initially

, the percentages of

people

who did not have jobs in the

UK

, the

EU

and

Japan

were 11, 9 and 2

percent

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respectively. After a slight growth, the figure for

Japan

remained stable at 3% from 1995 to 1999.

In contrast

, there was a sharp fall in the proportion of unemployed

UK

people

to 5%, which was at the same rate in

Japan

in 2001.

While

people

in other European nations were unemployed most in 1997, at over 11%,

this

figure dropped steadily to 9% in 2001. Regarding the remaining years of the period,

while

the percentage of unemployed

UK

people

stabilized at 5%

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2005 and experienced a 1% rise

at the end

of the period, that of

Japan

hit its highest point at 6% in 2003 and still kept the lowest ranking in the chart in 2007, at 4%. Despite a steady fall, the

EU

became the region with the highest unemployment rate

at the end

of the period, accounting for just under 8%.