The bar graph illustrates how domestic consumer electronics varied in one particular country from 2001 to 2008.
Overall, items were used domestically more in 2008 than they had been in 2001, except for telephone. It is clear that telephone was the most popular to be used among the household electronics while dishwasher was the least famous. In addition, there was a burst of usage in mobilephone and the internet during 7 years from 2001, whilst people were prone to use less telephone than they had done at the same time.
Looking at the segment of telephone, microwave, CD player and mobile phone, it was obvious that those items accounted for the dominant usage percentage in every household. Telephone was the only to experience a downward trend from 95% to 90% despite reaching a peak. Conversely, microwave experienced a slight rise of about 10% from 80%; similar change, but with a larger extent, was seen in the figure for CD player from 70% to 90%, which matched that for microwave. Significantly, there was an 4 times increase in the proportion of mobile phone used from 20% to 80% during the period of 7 years from 2001.
In contrast, home computer, clothes dryer, the Internet and dishwasher showed a lesser popularity, compared to the others. Remarkably, garments dryer that rose slightly by 10% from 60% had the highest statistics among these home appliances. The percentage of domestic computer observed a double of 30% from 2001 to 2008, which was also seen in that of dishwasher from 20% to 40% during the same span of time . Most impressively, the Internet undewent a jump of 50%from 10% to 60% during 7 years, which made this item the fastest popularity growth among all appliances.
