The provided line graph highlights the proportions of teenagers sticking to a vegetarian diet in the United Kingdom over a sixty-year period between 1960 and 2020.
Overall, it can be seen that at the beginning of the given period a vegetarian diet was not popular among adolescents. However, this trend reached a peak in 1980, then fluctuated before levelling off by the end of the given time period.
In 1960, teenagers in the UK were not following a vegetarian diet completely. However, the proportions of adolescents with vegetarian eating habits increased gradually, and peaked at approximately 15% in 1980. Nonetheless, after reaching its peak, the figures decreased remarkably, accounting for nearly 6% by 1990.
Besides this significant drop, the percentage of adolescents following a vegetarian diet fluctuated between 1990 and 2000. Moreover, after fluctuations, the patterns grew steadily and made up approximately 10% in 2010, before levelling off at this
point.