Band 6+: The chart below shows the changes in the percentage of households with cars in one European country between 1971 and 2001. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relevant.

This bar graph illustrates one European country and its percentage of households that owned cars from the year 1971 to 2001. In this, it can be clearly seen that owners with two cars have fluctuated throughout the years. In comparison with homes without cars, which had a gradual decline in the same span of years.

Firstly, while the orange bar graph started in 1971 with approximately 20 households with two cars, it differed between 1981 and 1991, until it reached a little over 30 homes with two-car ownership.

Conversely, the no-car houses started strong in 1971 with almost 50 houses without a car; however, as the years passed, this number decreased heavily from 1981 to 2001, where it stood at 30 households not owning a car.

It can be said that while the households with two cars or no car ended the year 2001 slightly similarly, where they increased and decreased respectively. The one-car ownership increased by almost a third and reached its highest peak with a little over 40 households owning just one car.