The graphs provide data about the demand for steel and the staff resource in this industry in the UK during a period of 30 years, commencing with 1970.
Overall, the steel industry witnessed a decline in scale, in which the total demand for steel, the internal production and the number of staff sank. Conversely, the amount of importing steel increased.
In terms of the UK steel demand, the quantity of it fell gradually over the whole period, starting at 200 million tonnes in 1970 and culminating in about 100 million in 2000. The British internal steel manufacturing repeated the same pattern, decreasing from approximately 170 million to about 90 million tonnes. In contrast, the importing steel demand rose marginally by about 70 million between 1970 and 2000. Notably, the figure for home country’s production and importing demand was nearly the same in 2000, at roughly 90 million tonnes.
Regarding the staff scale, it is evident from the graph that it saw a significant drop throughout the given years, from about 50 thousand people in the beginning to only roughly 16 thousand staff in the end.