The table illustrates the unemployment rate regarding the human resources of 9 nations all over the world in the years of 1994 and 2004.

The table illustrates the unemployment rate regarding the human resources of 9 nations all over the world in the years of 1994 and 2004. Overall, while there was more or less considerable declines in the rate of unoccupied workers among most European countries and the Americas, the proportion of job redundancy in Poland, Germany, Australia and Japan saw upward trends. It can be palpably seen that the majority of countries in Europe experienced drops in terms of jobless percentage. Over the decade, Ireland undergone the most radical change. Its ratio, initially the highest in 1994, went down tremendously and became one with the lowest level of joblessness, falling from 14. 8% to merely 4. 4%. Italy, the United Kingdom, and the American countries' rates also correspondingly decreased by around 2 to 5 percent. Observing the two remaining European countries’ percentage of idle laborers, they both witnessed rises after 10 years. In particular, Poland’s percentage soured up to 19%, turning to be the greatest figure recorded in 2004. Considering Germany, in starkly contrast, its proportion accounted for 9. 4%, which was nearly worth half of Poland’s at the end of the period. Moreover, nations in the Asia-Pacific region revealed hardly modifications in their idleness data and remained in low in rank.