slope charts

For this assignment’s data metric, I chose to look at the rise of the skilled labor force (meaning college graduates/skilled individuals employed) in Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Ecuador, and Greece, from 2000 to 2019.

Here is the data in a slope chart.

It’s clear that all 5 countries had an increase in skilled labor over the past 20 years, with most countries with the exception of Ecuador and Austria seeing a significant rise in the work force.

Interestingly, a few countries had a similar start percentage and end percentage, with a consistent rise over the past twenty years. It’s clear that since 2000, more people have furthered their education and as a result found themselves in jobs that called for that. It could be a result of the growing competition in work forces worldwide, or just that there are new technological systems that require more “skilled” workers (in their terms). But conclusively, skilled laborers are steadily increasing and numbers.