The given bar chart illustrates the proportion of people getting news through four distinct media including television, newspapers, radio and the Internet in a nation over a period of five years.
Overall, what stands out from the chart is that there was an increase in the proportion of people accessing news through the Internet, while the opposite trend was true for these figures of television, newspapers and radio. Moreover, the percentage of people using television to get news was the highest during the period.
In terms of television and radio, in 2013, almost 80% of the population used television as a tool to access news, which was the highest, before going down to 68% in 2015 and experiencing a slight rise to roughly 71% in 2017. Besides, the percentage of people receiving news via radio underwent a minimal decrease between 2013 and 2015, from 32% to 30%, followed by a period of stability at 30% finally.
Regarding the other media, the rate of people using newspapers to get news accounted for over 40%, which was higher than this figure of the Internet, at just over 30%. However, there was a dramatic decline in the percentage of newspaper readership, from over 40% to 30%, while the Internet users witnessed a rapid increase to 40% in 2015. Because of the development of the Internet in 2017, many people chose the Internet as a means to update information instead of newspapers, so that the internet consumption surged significantly from 40% to just under 70%, while the proportion of people getting news through newspapers continued to decline to just over 20% eventually.