The bar graph provided illustrates the percentage of citizens consuming news through different media channels in a country over a period of four years from 2013 to 2017.
From the chart, it is evident that the proportion of people accessing news through television, newspapers, and radio declined, whereas the use of the internet increased during the period. Notably, television consistently had the highest share among the surveyed media sources.
In terms of television and internet data, the percentage of the population receiving news via television was higher than that of the internet, with just under 80% compared to over 30% in 2013. However, two years later, the television figure saw a gradual decline to around 68%, while internet usage slowly increased by 10%. The share of people getting news through television showed a slight increase of about 3%, while internet consumption surged significantly from 40% to just under 70% between 2015 and 2017.
Looking at the remaining groups, in 2013, over 40% of citizens accessed news through newspapers and over 31% through radio. Between 2013 and 2015, newspaper readership dropped rapidly to 30%, while radio consumption experienced a moderate 2% decline. In the final two years of the survey, radio news consumption stabilized at 30%, while newspaper readership continued to decline slightly to just over 20%.