The proportion of jobless families is therefore a priori an important determinant of the risk of poverty. However, this proportion varies greatly from one country to another, and its evolution over time has not been homogeneous (Figure 9): the proportion of jobless families is, for example, very high (more than one in two families with children) in Australia, Germany, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Ireland, but it has fallen sharply since 1995 in Australia. A majority of other countries experienced a smaller decline in the proportion of jobless families in 2005. On the contrary, the latter has increased in 7 countries in a proportion that is often limited (less than 5 percentage points).