1 JAN------------------The graph below shows the unemployment rates in the UK, the rest of Europe and Japan from 1993 to 2007. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The provided line graph depicts the

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, Japan, and several European countries recording percentages of total unemployment between 1993 and 2007.

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, it can be seen that downward trends were observed in the unemployment rates in the

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and the rest of Europe. Meanwhile, the population of unemployed Japanese showed a fluctuating increase. Looking in more detail, from 1993 to 1995, there was an increase in the

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and Japan unemployment proportions, rising from 9% and 2% to 11% and 3%, respectively.

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the proportion of nonemployment in the

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continued to increase slightly until 1997, that of the Japanese remained stable for four years before climbing to 6% in 2003.

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Japanese figure

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dropped for the rest of the final period, settling at 4% in 2007.

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, the rate of unemployed British declined from nearly 12% in 1997 to 8% in 2003.

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figure was stable for the next two years, it fell marginally to around 8% in the

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year. The descending trend in the early 8 years was

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exhibited in several jobless Europeans before holding steady and rebounding slightly at 6% in 2007.