The bar chart illustrates the proportion of immigrants to australia from five different countries (the UK, New Zealand, India, Victnam, Italy) in 1962, 1982 and 2002. The figures are expressed as percentages.
Overall, the most striking aspect shown in this figure is that Italy had the highest figure, whereas India had the lowest figure. It is also noticeable that Victnam remained higher than India immigrants to Australia.
Looking first at Italy, it is apparent that Italy accounted for the highest roughly 40% in 1962 and increased from 20% in 1982 with lowest figure by 5% in 2002, followed by Victnam had the second highest, at approximately 25% in 1982, and declined gradually to 10% in 1962, at approximately 12% in 2002, meanwhile, India shown no unchanged, at approximately 15% in 1982 and 2002 and dropped by 2% in 1962. In comparison, India recorded less than vitman around 2% respectively.
Turning to New Zeland, incresed gradually to 10% in 1962 and remained relatively stable at 5%% in 1982 and in 2002. In contrast, the UK achieve higher approximately 20% in 1982 than in 1962. Furthermore, the UK significantly, at approximately 20% in 1982 and the lowest, at approximately 15%. To conclude, India had the lowest throughout during in this figure.