Topic

The unemployment rates in the US and Japan between March 1993 and March 1999

Muhammad Aafaq – 211670237

Study Skills: (ENG – 217)

Instructor: Ma’am Sarah Meer

BS English (Language and Literature)

Semester: Fall 2022

Date: 12-04-2023

Department of English Language and Literature

School of Arts and Social Sciences

GIFT University Gujranwala

 The unemployment rates in the US and Japan between March 1993 and March 1999

The graph below shows the unemployment rates in the US and Japan between March 1993

and March 1999.

Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.

The above graph compares the proportion of unemployed people in the United States

and Japan from March 1993 to March 1999. It is clear that the unemployment rates in these

two countries changed in opposite directions.

Over time, the percentage of Americans has dwindled. Unfortunately, Japan

experienced rapid growth in rates at the same time. Nonetheless, in 1999, both countries had

nearly the same percentage, which means that the lowest figures in the US were equal to the

highest in Japan.

In March 1993, the unemployment rate in the United States was around 7%, while it

was around 2.5% in Japan. It was observed in 1998, when Japan's rate reached a peak of

approximately 5.2%. The opposite happened in the United States, where the rate fell to 4.8%.

Despite the fact that the processes of changing figures in these countries were diametrically

opposed, the final numbers were astonishingly close. In March 1999, the unemployment rates

in the United States and Japan were about 5.1% and 4.9%, respectively.