The bar chart illustrates the proportion of workers laboring in five industries in the UK in two years: 1841 and 2011.
Overall, a downward trend was shown in three out of five categories with the exception of “services”, this field saw the greatest growth, and “construction”, experiencing a slow increase. There were remarkable changes in “manufacturing” and “agriculture/fishing” while “energy/water” just went through a minor decrease.
In 1841, “manufacturing” and “services” each took up about one third of the workforce, 36% and 33% respectively, but after 170 years, employees in the producing field reduced to one-quarter of its earlier figure. In contrast, with more and more people working in the service industry, it offered the majority of jobs in 2011, up to 81%, the number was much greater than any other area. Not as developed as the previous one, agriculture and fisheries plunge dramatically, from 22% to 1% after nearly two decades.
With the remaining marginal industries, laborers working in building areas rose by 3 percentage points from 5% in 1841, and resource fields workers declined to just 1% in 2011, just as one-third of the former’s number.