The bar graph illustrates the proportion of financial aid from six developed countries namely USA, UK, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, and Sweden to developing nations from 2008 to 2010.
Overall, most nations experienced a upward trend over the surveyed period except for the UK which display a gradual increase. Additionally, USA showed a biggest financial support, while the opposite was true for Sweden.
At first glance, the proportion of financial support from the USA was the highest out of all surveyed nations with above 20 billion dollars in 2008 and reaching 25 billion dollars in 2010, which is twice as big as the UK at the same year that accounted for about 13 billion with its initial point being at about 8 billion dollars. As for Germany, the figure for its financial assistance was about 10 billion at first. Over the next two years, it witnessed a small fluctuation before eventually reaching around 12 billion dollars.
The same tendency also occurred with Japan as the nation’s aid plummeted from 11 billion to approximately 8 billion dollars before recovering most of the loss in 2010. Moving to Netherlands, its statistics escalated from about 5 billion in 2008 to 8 billion dollars in 2009 but dropped by around 1 billion the following year. Sweden’s data peaked at approximately 7 billion in 2009, prior to the decrease to 5 billion dollars the next year.