The following line chart illustrates the number of fruits produced in Spain, Turkey, France and Germany between 1970 and 2010.
At the first glance, the annual production volume of fruits increases for Turkey and France, but decreases for the other two countries. Throughout the forty-year period, Spain dominates the overall fruit production quantity among the four mentioned countries.
In 1970, Spain was the country with the most fruit produced in a year out of the four countries at around 5.6 million tonnes. This figure then increase to slightly more than 6 million tonnes at 1980, before steadily descending to around 5.1 million tonnes 30 years later. Meanwhile, Germany started out at the second place with approximately 2.5 million tonnes of fruits produced in 1970, then gradually decreases to less than 1.5 million tonnes in 1990 before landing at about 1.1 million tonnes in 2010, become the country with the lowest annual production volume in the process.
Meanwhile, France and Spain experienced a mirrored pattern compare to the other countries. Starting from 1.1 million tonnes in 1970, France’s number experienced a minor increase during the first ten years of the period, then surges to over 2 million tonnes within the next ten years. This number than drops to about 1.8 million in 2000 before reaching its peak at nearly 3 million tonnes. On the other hand, the figure for Turkey witnessed a more linear improvement, from exactly 2 million in the beginning of the period to about 3.5 million at the end of the timeline.