The bar chart below illustrates the differences in magazine sales per reader in five countries in 2003, 2005, and 2007.
Overall, we can see that country B had the highest magazine sales among all the countries, especially in 2003, the difference between country A and B’s sales volume was approximately five magazines only. In contrast, country E had the lowest magazine sales which remained constant which can indicate the gap in sales volume and a decreasing trend when moving towards 2007.
Country B’s sales remained all-time high throughout the years with 50 magazines in 2003, about 47 magazines in 2005, and about 44 magazines in 2007 which can be considered as stable in trend in a country. Country A is slightly lower than country B with approximately 48 magazines for 2003, 42 magazines in 2005 and 38 magazines in 2007. The sales volume started to decrease in country C and reached the all-time low in country E with the highest of approximately 7 magazines sold in 2005 and 3 magazines in the remaining years.
To sum up, bar chart showed a decreasing trend in magazine reading from 2003 to 2007. The magazine sales will typically be the highest among the three years and this didn’t apply for country D as their highest was in 2007 with about 23 magazines sold.