The bar chart compares the life expectancy in four different countries – Japan, Korea, U.S. and Indonesia – in 2008, while the accompanying table provides data on how these figures had increased from 1996 to 2008.
Overall, Japan was the leading country with the highest life expectancy in 2008, as opposed to Indonesia, which had the lowest. In contrast, Indonesia had experienced the biggest increase over the given 12 years.
Looking first on the bar chart, it is clear that Japan was the dominant nation, with the highest figure of 82.7. This was followed by Korea and U.S, at 79.2 and 77.2, respectively. By contrast, Indonesia had the lowest life expectancy, at 70.9.
As for the table, it is evident that Indonesia had seen by far the biggest rise of 14.1 years in life expectancy between 1996 and 2008. In Korea and Japan, in turn, the life expectancy had increased by respective numbers of 9.3 and 5.1. Notably, U.S had witnessed the smallest growth of 3.2 over the given period.