The given charts demonstrate Britain’s demand for steel and the number of employees in the UK steel industry from 1970 to 2000.
Overall, it can be clearly seen that while the total demand and the amount of steel produced by the UK dropped slightly over the period, the opposite was true for importing. Additionally, the number of people working in the steel industry in Britain decreased continuously in 30 years.
Regarding the first graph, at the beginning of the period, the total demand of British people for steel stood at 200 million tonnes, 50 million tonnes higher than the country’s production. While at that time, the amount of steel imported was very small, just about 20 million tonnes. Over three decades, the need for steel and the amount of steel production in the UK experienced a downward trend and reached their lowest point at 100 and 80 million tonnes in the order given; whereas the figure for the import sector rose significantly and peaked at 80 million tonnes.
In terms of the second graph, in 1970, 50,000 people were working in the steel industry in England, which was the highest quantity in the period of three decades. By the year 1990, this figure had dropped sharply to roughly 25 thousands of people. In the rest of the period, the quantity of staff in Britain’s steel industry continued to decrease but at a lower rate and reached its lowest point at just under 20,000 employees.