Chart assignment

Charts to read and discuss

Read each chart, then answer its questions. Every chart shows its source and date; open it for a table of the numbers and the data to download.

  1. How many food recalls are for salmonella each year?
  2. What is the unemployment rate in each country?

Printable worksheet each chart with its source, date and space to write answers

Chart 1 of 2 · Food and drug safety

How many food recalls are for salmonella each year?

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The FDA classified 77 food recalls for salmonella in 2025; the most since 2013 was 80 in 2016. Salmonella is a germ that causes food poisoning, often from eggs, produce, nuts, spices and pet food. A recall counts once however many products it covers, in the year FDA first listed it in its weekly Enforcement Report. Chartly sorted FDA's written reasons by their key words; a recall that names listeria too is counted on the listeria chart instead. Meat, poultry and most egg products are USDA's to recall and aren't included. The newest salmonella recalls, this year's included, are listed below.

Questions to discuss

  1. In one sentence of your own, what does this chart show?
  2. Find the biggest change or difference in the chart. What might explain it?
  3. Who collected these numbers, and how recent are they? What else would you want to know before drawing a conclusion?

Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) (Public domain (U.S. government work); source U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA) · Data as of Nov 4, 2026

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  • MLA

    “How Many Food Recalls Are for Salmonella Each Year?” Chartly, 4 Nov. 2026, chart.ly/charts/salmonella-food-recalls-per-year. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

  • APA

    Chartly. (2026, November 4). How many food recalls are for salmonella each year? [Chart]. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://chart.ly/charts/salmonella-food-recalls-per-year

  • Chicago

    Chartly. “How Many Food Recalls Are for Salmonella Each Year?” Chart. Data from U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data). Updated November 4, 2026. Accessed November 14, 2026. https://chart.ly/charts/salmonella-food-recalls-per-year.

Chart 2 of 2 · World

What is the unemployment rate in each country?

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In 2025, 4.2% of workers in the United States were unemployed, against 4.8% worldwide; the highest rate was 34.2% in Eswatini, and the lowest 0.1%, in Qatar. Search 182 countries and territories. These are the International Labour Organization's estimates, which count people without work who are looking for it and fill gaps where a country runs no regular survey, so they can differ from a country's own figures.

How to read this chart

Each bar is the share of a country's workers who have no job and are looking for one, estimated by the International Labour Organization. The dashed line is the world. People who aren't looking for work, such as students and retirees, aren't counted as unemployed at all.

Questions to discuss

  1. Is the United States above or below the world rate, and by about how many percentage points?
  2. A country can have low unemployment while many people earn very little. How is that possible?
  3. Why would someone who has given up looking for work not count as unemployed? Does that make the number more or less useful?

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators: Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate) (CC BY 4.0 (credit the World Bank)) · Data as of Dec 31, 2025

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  • MLA

    “What Is the Unemployment Rate in Each Country?” Chartly, 31 Dec. 2025, chart.ly/charts/unemployment-rate-by-country. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

  • APA

    Chartly. (2025, December 31). What is the unemployment rate in each country? [Chart]. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://chart.ly/charts/unemployment-rate-by-country

  • Chicago

    Chartly. “What Is the Unemployment Rate in Each Country?” Chart. Data from World Bank, World Development Indicators: Unemployment, total (% of total labor force) (modeled ILO estimate). Updated December 31, 2025. Accessed November 14, 2026. https://chart.ly/charts/unemployment-rate-by-country.

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