The chart illustrates the cost of bananas in Japan, France, Germany and USA from 1994 to 2004.
It is clear that the cost of bananas in Japan and France witnessed a unstable tendency while that in USA and Germany experienced a decrease tendency. Besides, Japan had the highest prices while the opposite tendency was true for France.
In 1995, the cost of bananas in Japan increased dramatically from 1,9 US $ per kilogram to reach its peak at 2,9 US $ per kilogram while the French experienced a stable trend at 1,6 US $ per kilogram. From 1996 to 2001, the price of bananas in Japan decreased considerably from its peak to 1,6 US $ per kilogram and the price had experienced an upward trend to 2,5 US $ per kilogram in 2004. While in French, from 1996 to 2000 there was a down tendency from 1,6 US $ per kilogram to 1 US $ per kilogram and increased again to 1,6 US $ in 2004.
While in the USA, the price of bananas witnessed an unstable change from 1,4 US $ per kilogram in 1994 to1,3 US $ per kilogram in 2002 and had a stable trend at 1,3 US $ per kilogram from 2002 to 2003,the cost of bananas in Germany increased from 0,8 US $ per kilogram to 1,25 US $ per kilogram in 1998 and kept this prices from 1998 to 2004.
