The pie charts illustrate the shares of different citrus fruits in the production of three countries, namely, Brazil, China, and the USA. Overall, the most striking feature of the charts is that each country specializes in just one type of fruit, despite growing all of them.
The specialization is particularly clear in Brazil where the production of oranges represents 87% of the total, whereas, in both China and the USA, the predominant fruit makes up a little under three-quarters of the total. Although, Brazil and the USA produce mainly oranges, China favours tangerines, a fruit which claims only 6% of the total in Brazil and a mere 3% in the USA.
It is also evident that in both China and the USA, production is somewhat more varied compared to Brazil, since in both countries a second fruit, orange in China and grapefruit in the USA, represent between 16% and 18% of the total.
Across all three countries, lemon production is relatively small, never exceeding the 7% recorded in the USA, and reaching a low of just 1% in Brazil. On the other hand, grapefruit production varies from as high as 16% in the USA to much lower levels of 5% and 4% in Brazil and China, respectively.