The line graph illustrates the budget spent on books of four different countries, including Germany, France, Italy and Austria during a period from 1995 to 2005.
Overall, there was an increase in the sum of money spent on books in all four countries, with the most dramatic change witnessed in the case of Austria. Despite this dynamic growth, Austria still sat at the lowest position for the majority of time while Germany remained its first rank constantly during the period.
To be more specific, two countries that spent the highest amount of money on books were Germany and France, respectively. Generally, Germany experienced light fluctuations while the figure for France constantly grew up. Besides, the gap between the two was quite notable, with the former’s original figure at about 80 million dollars, higher than that of the latter by roughly 25 million. Although the disparity then widened by 5 million in 1999, it was gradually bridged to just 15 million in 2003 before broadening again at the end of the 10-year course.
Regarding the other two nations, with only modest volatility before a constant but small rise by more than 10 million to the final point of around 62 million dollars, Italians’ budget on books saw the most humble expansion among the four. However, the converse was too in the case of Austria, to such an extent that it surpassed Italy in 2003 and successfully gained the third rank at the end. In detail, Austria’s real leap started in 2001 with a rise by approximately 30 million dollars, which destroyed the original gap of 20 million between it and Italy.