The line graph compares the average oil prices in a per barrel with the food prices index by points from 2000 to 2011.
Overall, it is clear that both average oil prices and food prices index showed an upward trend over the given period. Furthermore, both of them recorded the most significant increase.
In 2000, the average oil price stood at 25 dollars in per barrel and the food price index by 90 points. According to following four years, both of them fluctuated lightly, while per barrel of oil price between 25 dollars and 30 dollars, the food price index from 90 points to around 100 points. After fluactuating lightly in 2004, the oil price and the food price index increased significantly by nearly 60 dollars (more doubled) per barrel and 140 points in 2007.
Both of them continued rising considerably to reach a peak of 130 dollars per barrel and 230 points for the oil price and the food price index in 2008, but later the price of oil fell down nearly 40 dollars per barrel and the price index of food dropped by roughly 140 points compared the first. Although the price of them fell from 2008 to 2009, they rose once again stood at 240 points and 100 dollars in 2011.