The chart illustrates the number of teenagers that eat a vegetarian meal over a period of four decades, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Overall, there is a significant increase in the number of adolescents only after 2015. Before 2015 the slight growth can be noticed only in the 2000. At other periods, statistics fluctuated between 200.000 and 300.000 individuals.
At the beginning of the five-decade period, 200.000 teenagers followed a vegetarian diet, throughout next 15 years the number of people fluctuated, bu remained almost the same. From 1995 to 2000 the moderate growth can be noticed, so in 2000 the number of individuals increased by 200.000, getting 400.000 people. After this rise, during the following fifteen-year period it returned back to the initial number. By the end of the period, however, the number rose enormously, reaching its highest point at more than 900.000 people, who follow the diet, that is 4.5 times higher than the primary data.