The bar chart illustrates the differences in the proportions of households that posseses car in one European country within the time period of 1971 to 2001.
Overall, by 2001 car ownership in european countries faced a massive change, where the percentage of people who possessed One Car and Two car crossed the option of No car in comparision to 1971. By 2001, the graph represents a fall of no car ownership by almost half. The value of One Car ownership reached a significant growth at the end of 2001. Citizens who owns two cars ranked second at 2001, slightly crossing the rate of the ones with no cars.
The data depicted suggests that in this period of 30 years, the One Car option grew with slight fluctuation. With approximately 35 % in 1971, this preference faced a decline in 1981 to further falling at its lowest in 1991 with almost 20% share. However, it quickly grew with a massive resurgence in 2001 gaining over 50% increase and reaching more than 40%. On the other hand, the second change is represented in the varying fluctuation curve of the option Two car. The want for two cars stood with lowest percentage in 1971 at a value close to 20. This want of two cars increased drastically to around 40% in 1981 however dropped down to slightly over 20% in 1991. By the end of 2001, people possessing two cars reached over 30%.
In constrast to this, no car is the option that started with almost 50% share dominating the market. However, that percentage faced a steady decline in 1981, where it could reach right under 45%. From 1991 to 2001, the percentage of people no zero car ownership stayed constant at 30%. Nonetheless, if compared in terms of total value of these available three options, No car is the only preference that had the highest volume despite being the only option with a fall in its rate of percentage.