The bar chart provides information about changes in the percentage of different kinds of magazines sold by a particular company from 1975 to 2015.
Overall, there was an increase in the sale of sports magazines, while the opposite was true in the case of fashion and health magazines. Additionally, despite some variations, the sales figures for food and other magazines remained unchanged after four decades. It is also clear that the sports magazines were consistently the company’s best-selling publications.
Sports magazines were the only category that experienced an upward trend. Specifically, they outsold other types of magazines throughout the period, beginning at about 32% before rising steadily to end the period at just over 40%.
Regarding the magazine genres with downward trends, the proportion of fashion magazines sold started at around 23%, after which it had slumped dramatically to 5% in 2015. Health magazines followed a similar trend, albeit at a lower rate, undergoing a drop of 6 percentage points from 26%.
Turning to food and other unspecified types of magazines, they followed a same pattern, with their figures comprising 10% and slightly above 25% in 1975, reaching their highest points of around roughly 23% and 33% after 20 years, then returning to their initial levels at the end of the surveyed period, respectively.