The bar chart compares the global production of cars and bicycles from 1950 to 2000. Overall, the number of bicycles were greater than cars throughout a fifty-year period. It is also evident that both bicycles and cars showed a general increase in numbers, reaching their peaks in 2000.
If we look at the years 1950 and 1960, we can see that a very few (not even a million) number of cars and bicycles were produced. In 1970, however, the number of bikes stood at approximately 40 million in comparison with about 5 million cars. Over the next decade, the figure for the former nearly doubled to over 100 million, while the latter one grew by 20 million.
Between 1990 and 2000, these growing trends went on, however bicycles production rose rapidly, while car production did slightly, with hitting their peaks. The cars making reached to roughly 50 million, in contrast, bike making saw a dramatic growth, with approximate 220 million.