The bar chart demonstrates the alternations in the proportions of car ownership in a specific country in Europe during a 40-year period.
Overall, it is apparent that the number of people owning no car has declined during the period, while people with one or two cars has witnessed opposite trends during the same time frame.
In 1971, nearly a half of inhabitants in this country possessed no car, which came out top. While the proportion of households owing one automobile stood the second with approximately 36%, that of having two was the lowest, at just under 20%. No much changed in the pattern seen in the next 10 years, however, households with no car decreased substantially to just over 40%. Similarly, the trends for holding one car experienced the same trend, declined slightly to just around a third. On the contrary, there was a dramatic rise in the percentage of car owners, reaching roughly a third of the population.
In 1991, one-car owners went up exponentially to peak at around 50%. The number of having no car went down to 30%. Likewise, only a fifth of people got two cars, which was the lowest rate among the three. The next decade witnessed a recovery of one-automobile ownership when it regained its figure of the previous decade, and that was also the figure of getting no car. Although the quantity of one-car possessor dipped slightly to 43%, its data was the highest.