The line graph demonstrates the proportion of Australian exports with four different nations from 1990 to 2012.
Overall, it can be observed that the percentage of Japan is the significant downward trend in almost every year, while the opposite was true for China and India. Furthermore, the percentages of China was overcome Japan in final year to become leading destination for Australian exports
In 1990, the percentages of Japan accounted for the largest share of Australian exports, with 26%, which was thirteen times than the figure for China with 2%. After ten years, the former was decreased to 18%, while the latter increased to 6%. Moreover, the percentage of Japan in the last year was 17%, which has been surpassed by China with reach a peak of 28%.
In addition, the percentage of US and India in the first years was 11% and 1% respectively. In 1995, the former decreased to 8%, the latter remain unchanged. At the end of the period, the percentage od Australian exports to US witness an downward trend to 6%, while the figure for India increased to 5%
