The provided bar chart illustrates the proportion of total world production in three different regions between 1840 and 2000.
Overall, the figures for Europe and Asia experienced various downward trends, while the figure for other regions increased significantly. At the beginning of the period Asia showed the highest percentage of total global production and it remained in its leading position by the end of the period.
Focusing on the regions that showed a decreasing trend, we can see that these were Asia and Europe. Asia accounted for 52% of global production in 1840, which was its peak point. After that, it decreased dramatically to 32% in 1880, before falling gradually to 22% in 1960. Following this, Asia’s proportion of world production rocketed to 42% in 2000. Starting at 38% in 1840, the share of Europe in the world’s total production rose steadily to 49% in 1960, after which it fell substantially to 28% in 2000.
Conversely, the rest of the world exhibited an upward trend in the proportion of total global production. The share of the other regions in global production stood at 10% in 1840, and then it soared to 26% in 1880 before declining subtly to 24% in 1920. After that, its share of total world production increased steadily to 30% in 2000.
