The line graph below shows the unemployment rates of three countries between 1993 and 2007

The line graph provides information about how many people (in %) were unemployed in the United Kingdom, the rest of Europe and Japan, in the period from 1993 to 2007.

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, figures for Europe and the UK declined over the years,

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experienced non-significant growth. As the graph shows, Japan had the lowest rate compared to others

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it was 2% in 1993,

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the number of unemployed people grew slightly to 5% in 2003, and

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fell to approximately 4% in 2007. The UK started from 11% of the unemployed population in 1993, after that it experienced

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rapid decline to 5% in 2005, when it was the same as the Japanese figure. Trend ended with a slow increase to around 6% in 2007. In the rest of Europe, the unemployment rate was about 9% in 1993. It

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increased slightly and reached a peak of just over 10% in 1997. After that, the figure began to decline to about 8% in 2001. From

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point, unemployment experienced stagnation with small changes, before it decreased again to around 7% in 2007.