The presented bar chart provides the percentage of contribution that three sectors – agriculture, manufacture, business and financial services brought in to the UK economy throughout the 20th century.
In general, the percentage of contribution of agricultural and manufactural sectors once dominating the statistics, plummeted. In contrast, the value of business and financial services significantly grew over the course of the years.
Now, going in details, we can clearly see that Agriculture and Manufacturing were providing the most contribution in 1900 by roughly 50% and around 45% respectively. However, through half a century these numbers took the opposite courses with Agriculture going slightly over 50% and with Manufacturing facing a small decrease to approximately 40%. Despite agriculture having a short upward trend its percent dropped dramatically in 1975 and kept falling until it reached a rock bottom by less than a 10% of contribution in 2000. For Manufacturing the situation was similar after 1950 the numbers saw a gradual decline eventually reaching below 20% by the year 2000.
Although the Business and financial services didn’t brought much in to the economy at the start with less than 10% of contribution, as the time passed it gradually escalated to above 30% in 2000.