The bar chart illustrates globe manufacturing yield from diverse regions and productivity rate given by percentage.
Overall, Asia and Europe dominated world production in the earliest years, but their roles reversed over time. While Europe peaked in 1920, Asia realized a sharp decline the same year but then regained its lead by 2000. As well, production from the rest of the world steadily increased in this period.
In 1840, Asia and Europe led the global production, consistently at 50% and 40%, just ten percent from the rest of the world. In 1880, Asia’s productivity dropped to 30%; on the other hand, Europe’s increased to approximately 45%. The rest of the world doubled his output; it was increased to roughly 25%. This trend continued in 1920; Europe and rest of the world increased about 5% and Asia decreased 10%, their percentages consistently 50, 30 and 20.
In 1960, the production outputs of the regions became more balanced. Asia, Europe and the rest of the world each produced between 25% and 37%. By 2000, Asia regained dominance with 45% of global output, and for the first time, the rest of the world passed Europe with 33%.