The line graph illustrates the sales of jam in five different countries between 2009 and 2014. Overall, despite the initial popularity of plum jam, it wassold less over time. Strawberry, raspberry, and grape jams, however, followed a different upward trajectory, with their gap in between growing bigger. Notably, cherry sales fluctuated.
Although the number of plum jam sales was 2,500.00 in 2009, it saw a substantial decrease for most of the study period.
However, in the later years, this figure dropped by 2,500,000, ending at 0 in 2014.
In contrast, strawberry, raspberry, and grape jams followed somewhat similar upward patterns. The number of grapejam sales was around 500,000 in 2009, a figure that increased to double, around 4,600,000 in 2014. The sale of strawberries and raspberries also grew, starting at around3,100,000 and 2,800,000, respectively. Strawberry and raspberrysales closed the period with 7,000,000 and 5,400,000 in 2014, respectively. Cherry sales fluctuated. Starting at 2,000,000 in 2009, they briefly fell to 2,000,000 in 2011 before rising sharply to 3,000,000 in 2013; in the end, the figure decreased to 2,800,000 in 2014.