The provided bar chart below portrays the percentage of global car sharing usage in five continents, such as North America, Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia during 2008 and 2016. Numbers are measured in percentages.
Overall, in particular, a significant amount of global usage of car sharing was observed in North America and Europe, whereas in South America, Australia and Asia figures were similarly low. In addition, in 2008 North America had considerably lower percentage; however, situation changed and North America underwent huge increase by 2016, surpassing Europe.
To begin with, it can be explicitly seen that data for Australia and Asia was exactly conspicuously similar, making up about 3% and 5% in 2008 and 2016, respectively. Turning to South America, in 2008 and 2016 numbers accounted for mere 2% and 4%, respectively.
Regarding leaders of the chart, North America and Europe, North America’s application rate of car sharing accounted for approximately one-third at the beginning, then significantly growing up to about 60% by the year 2016. Moreover, situation for Europe was completely opposite, as its figure made up a little more than a half, plummeting to roughly 35% by 2016.