The bar chart illustrates the average consumption of two kinds of beverages, soft drinks and bottled water in five countries in 2002, with figures expressed in liters per person.
Overall, the United States recorded the highest figure of soft drinks, as well as each people in Germany consumed the most bottled water among five countries. It is also notably that people in Australia, Japan, and USA consumed more soft drinks than bottled water, whereas bottled water was more popular than soft drinks in Italy and Germany.
Looking first at the nations that preferred soft drinks, USA represent the most significant preference at soft drinks. The average consumption of soft drinks standing at around 200 liter per person has roughly 150 liters higher than the figure of bottled water, at 50 liters per person. In Australia, the soft drinks, at 100 liters per person, was also more popular than bottled water, at approximately 25 liter per person. Although the gap is much smaller than USA, the average consumptions of soft drinks are almost four times the figures of bottled water in b0th Australia and the United States. The average consumption of both soft drinks and bottled water in Japan recorded the smallest figures among all five countries, at around 50 and 20 liter per person respectively.
By contrast, the bottled water represented higher consumption figures than soft drinks in Italy and Germany. According to the chart, Germany recorded the highest consumption of bottled water, at roughly 175 liters per person, among all the countries. In addition, the figure of soft drinks consumption ranks in the second place, at approximately 140 liters per person. Similarly, the consumption volume of bottled water is higher than soft drinks in Italy, at around 120 and 70 liters per person respectively.