The provided stacked bar chart compares the total sales of a particular drug company in three different regions from 2002 to 2006.
Overall, America and Europe witnessed downward trends in the percentage of the company’s total sales while there was an opposite tendency in the case of Asia. Besides, Asia became the region which generated the highest sales in the year 2006.
As can be seen from the chart, America was the largest market with 41% of total sales in 2002, and it declined to 27% in the first half of the surveyed period. The figure for this region had a slight increase of about 3% between 2004 and 2006. On the contrary, Europe saw a gradual development from 34% to 38% within the first two years, then it declined, equaling sales in America by the end of the period.
It is noteworthy that the proportion of the corporation’s total sales in Asia witnessed an upward trend from 25% to 40% in 2006, which makes this region become the largest market in the last year of the period.
