The line graph below shows the unemployment rates for the USA and Japan between March 2005 and March 2011.

The line graph compares the percentages of unemployed Japanese and Americans from 2005 to 2011. 1Overall, the unemployment rate in the USA was considerably higher than that of Japan in 2005 but 2by around 2010after five years the rate 3became almost the samebecame the almost the same in both countries. 4Now, turning to the details, exactly 5seven percent of the workforceseven percent workforce in the USA was unemployed in 2005 which was 6almost three times as high asalmost thrice than 7the Japanese unemployment ratethe unemployment Japanese workforce. In March 2006, 8the US unemployment ratejoblessness among the US citizens 9dropped by about one percentage pointdropped by one percent while it increased to over 3.5 percent in Japan. 10Following that, the unemployment rate in the USA 11continued to decreasekept on decreasing with some fluctuations and 12reached 5.5%reached to 5.5% in 2010 whereas 13the opposite was truean exactly opposite was the truth in 14the case of Japanthe case of the Japan, where the percentage of jobless people steadily climbed until it reached to 5.5% in 2010. Interestingly, unemployment rates in the USA and Japan intersected each other by 2010 and with few minor rise and fall, both remained almost the same 15until March 2011until the end of 2011, despite a huge gap, 4.5% to be more precise, in early 2005.