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The line graph below shows changes in the youth unemployment rate from 2000 to 2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph below shows changes in the youth unemployment rate from 2000 to 2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The line graph displays the comparison of
youth
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 unemployment
percentage
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percentages
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 between 5 different
countries
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 across 12 years.
Overall
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, the
number
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 in each country fluctuated
along
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over
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the
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time.
However
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, the trend in
Germany
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 was steady,
while
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 the other
countries
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 had a tendency to go upward. In 2000, Italy's
youth
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 unemployment
rate
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were
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 the highest among all, which was close to 30%. The
rate
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 was followed by
France
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 at 20%, making it ranked the 2nd. The rest were relatively low compared to Italy and
France
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 with the amount of approximately 10%. Between 2000 and 2006, Italy experienced a significant decrease of almost 10%, making its
rate
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 slightly lower than the unemployment
rate
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 in Britain which went ascending to more than 20% and close to
France
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.
On the other hand
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, the
number
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 of
youth
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 unemployed in Sweden and
Germany
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were
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was
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 relatively stable at a little higher than 10%. Things went
different
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differently
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 in each
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countries
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country
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 after 2006.
However
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, the
rate
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 of jobless
youth
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 tended to increase
for
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in
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 all
countries
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 except
Germany
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. In 2012, Italy was back to the highest
rate
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 with
its
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a
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 sharp increase of around 15%. Britain and
France
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 experienced a similar fluctuation between 2006 and 2012 and ended with
the
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rate
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 of approximately 25%. Sweden's
number
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 showed a gradual increase during 6 years and reached 20% in 2012.
Germany
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,
in contrast
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, lowered its jobless
number
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 to less than 10%.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "however".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words youth, countries, number, germany, rate, france with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "approximately" was used 2 times.
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