The bar chart illustrates the global manufacturing output by Asia, Europe, and the rest of the world in five years.
Overall, Asia and Europe have seen a growth trend followed by a decline in 1920 and 1960, while the rest of the world showed the opposite trend with the recovery in the later years. In addition, the rest of the world dominated early production, while Asia became the leading region in the mid-20th century.
As can be seen from the chart, in 1840, Asia accounted for 40% of total world production output, higher compared to Europe by 10%. After that, the production output in Asia rose to 45% in 1880. This figure skyrocketed to 50% in 1920 before decreasing to 38% since 1960 and finally falling to 28% at the end of the period. Meanwhile, Europe has a similar tendency, the manufacturing of production output in this region grew considerably to 25% in 1880, continuing to climb to 30% in 1920 and reaching its highest point in 1960 at 38%. Afterward, there was a slight reduction of 31% in the last year.
However, the rest of the world experienced an opposite trend to other areas. The proportion of producing output began at the highest level of 50% in 1840, this region showed a continuous decline to 30% after 40 years and reached its lowest point of 18% in 1920. The percentages remained relatively low at 22% in 1960 before substantially recovering to 45% in 2000.