The given illustration includes one pie chart, one table, and one bar graph, each of which represents different information on the Little Chalfont library: The pie chart illustrates the proportions of members in this library based on their ages in 2016, the table compares the percentages of loans across different categories of this library in the year 2016, and the bar graph depicts the total number of loans from 2007 to 2016.
Overall, one of the most striking features when looking at the data is that the majority of the library members were adults (18-64 years old). In addition, except for the first year, this library had around 20,000 loans annually; especially in the year 2016, most of the total loans were for children’s and adult fiction books.
Looking first at the demographic illustration, in the year 2016, members whose age ranged from 18 to 64 were responsible for more than half—51%, to be exact—of the total number. Although it ranked second, the percentage of child members in this library was only 22%, which is less than half of the previously mentioned figure. Lastly, the remaining 27% was made up of young adults (13-17 years old), at 15%, and adults 65 and over, at 12%.
Moving on to the total number of loans in this library, starting at slightly more than 15,000 loans per year, this place had seen a significant increase for the next 3 years, as its figure reached more than 20,000 loans per year in 2009. From this point onwards, the data fluctuated slightly around this level until 2016, ending at approximately 23,000 loans.
Out of the mentioned number of loans, 76% were for borrowing either children’s fiction or adult fiction, at 38% apiece—outnumbering the other genres of books by a wide gap. Adult non-fiction (13%), children’s non-fiction (6%), young adult and adult audiobooks (2% each), and children’s DVDs (1%) were responsible for the remaining portion of loans.