The given pie charts illustrate the total number of people who visited the public libraries in Britain, and the proportions of the most popular reasons to use this service between 1991 and 2000.
Overall, it is clear that the number of visitors to the UK’s libraries did not change after 9 years, while another purpose of coming to this place was added to the chart. The percentage of the ‘Borrow or return books’ sector remained the largest share of the main reasons, whereas the figures for studying stayed relatively low.
In 1991, 290 million people visited public libraries in Britain and 65% of them came there to borrow and return books. By contrast, the data on studying was only 10%, which experienced a significant fall by 8% over a 9-year period. The proportion of obtaining information made up the lowest share in 1991, at 10%, before being doubled in the year 2000.
In 2000, the total number of people who came to libraries was the same as 9 years before, while the purpose of borrowing and returning videos became more popular, by taking 18% of the pie chart. The proportion of reading newspapers or magazines was only 5%, whereas the figure for borrowing and returning books was much higher, at 55%.