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 given graph illustrates the unemployment rates in three regions , which are the UK,Japan and the rest of Europe , during the period from 1993 to 2007.

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, the unemployment rate fluctuated across the three regions throughout the period .

However

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,the rest of Europe scored the highest unemployment rate in 2007 , followed by the UK and Japan. In detail,the proportion of unemployed people increased slightly in the rest of Europe between 1993 and 1997 from 9% to 12%

then

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it fell to nearly 8% in 2007 , which was the highest share.

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, the percentage of citizens without occupation in the UK decreased over the period between 1993 and 2001 from 11% to 5%,

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remained stable at 5% before it rose steadily to 6% in 2007.

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, the proportion remained under 3% in Japan between 1993 and 1993 ,before a remarkable shot up from 3% to 6% in 2003 ,

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it reduced again to only 4 % in 2007.