The first chart illustrates the number of beers that were sold in the United Kingdom in two different points of sales: pubs and supermarkets over 17 years from 2000 to 2016. The second graph represents the total figures for pubs in the UK.
Overall, the number of beers sold by pubs decreased while the beers sold by supermarkets increased over the years. As we can see, there was a slight decline in the number of pubs every year.
In 2000, the number of beers sold in pubs was approximately 25,000 and this number kept falling for the next 16 years, reaching the lowest point in 2016, in contrast to beers sold by supermarkets that had a consistent fluctuation between 10000 and 15000 showing modest growth the last year and exceeded the sales of pubs.
With regard to the total numbers of pubs that started in 2000 in the UK, the bar graph shows a decrease trend with just above 60000 pubs that year and in 2016 the number fell to 50000 pubs, which demonstrates that almost ten thousand pubs were closed between these years.
