The line chart illustrates how the volume of beer sold in two market types: pubs, and supermarkets, changed from 2000 to 2016 in the UK, while the bar chart displays the number of pubs over the same period. At first glance, both categories of market showed different trends, while the total number of pubs moderately decreased.
Regarding the amount of beer sold, measured in barrels, the volumes sold to pubs plummeted, while that to supermarkets fairly increased. Initially, in 2000, the former stood at nearly 25,000 thousand barrels, and the latter started at just over 10,000 thousand barrels. Subsequently, the volume of sale for pubs constantly declined to around 12,500 thousand barrels, which was intersected with the volume for supermarkets in 2014. In 2016, they just finished at a range of approximately between 12,000 thousand and 14,000 thousand, with supermarkets’ volume was higher than that in subs.
In terms of the number of pubs in the UK, it relatively plummeted. In 2000, the number of pubs had comprised just over 60,000 units before declining gradually to around 51,000 over the 14-years period in 2014. Eventually, it constituted 50,000 pubs, which were situated in the UK in 2016.