The bar chart illustrates the numbers of registered road vehicles of an European nation in two specific year: 1996 and 2006.
Overall, the most common mean of transport in this country was private cars, with the number of private cars and other types increased, while motocycles showed the opposite. Meanwhile, lorries and bus remain stable.
Concerning private cars and other types, there was a significant increase in the number of private owned vehicles, which rose from around 19 millions in 1996 to precisely 24 million, in 2006. Similarly, other types of vehicles witnessed an upward trend, starting at approximately 1 million in 1996, before rose to a marginal number of roughly 2 millions.
As for the other means of transports, lorries and bus shared a distintive trend, which stabilized at just less than 1 million, with lorries are a little bit higher than that of bus. On the contrary, in 2006, the figure for motocycles decreased to one-half the number of 1996.