The line graph compares the proportions of Australian exports to four different countries throughout the period from 1990 to 2012. overall, Japan and the US experienced decreasign trends, while the reverse was true for China and India. the biggest change was exhibited by China. In addition, the biggest figure was shown by Japan untill 2007, then it was overtaken by China.
Focusing on decreasing trends first, these were true for Japan and the US. Starting with 25% in 1990, the proportions of Japan decrased dramatically to 18% in 2000. Before decreasing, the percentages of exports to Japan decrased from 25% to 20% from 1990 to 1995. Then, it remained stable between 2000 and 2005. After remainding stable, the proportion of exports to Japan experienced negligible decraease from 18% to 17% throughout the period from 2005 to 2010. Then, it remained stable again from 2010 to 2012. As for the proportions of exports to US showed minor fluctuations, peaking at 10% in 1995 before falling back to 8% in 2000. Then it exhibited moderate decrease from 10% to 5% between 2000 and 2010. Before decreasing, the percentages of exports to US decreased from 10% to 7% from 2000 to 2005. Then, it showed insignificant increase from 5% to 6% throughout the period from 2010 to 2012.
By contrast exports from Ausrtralia to China and India exhibited increasing trends. The figure for exports to India, it stood at 1% in 1990, then it remained stable untill 2000. After remaining stable, the proportion for exports to India increased noticebly from 1% to 5% from 2000 to 2005. After noticeble increase, it remained stable between 2005 and 2012. Before remainding stable, it showed moderate increase from 5% to 7% throughout the period from 2005 to 2010. As for the proportions of exports to China, it stood at 2% in 1990, then it exhibited negligible increase to 3% in 1995. After increasing trends, the figure of exports to China increased significantly from 3% to 10% between 1995 and 2005. Before increasing, it increased from 3% to 5% from 1995 to 2000. Then, the percentages for the exports to China experienced dramatically from 10% to 25% throughout the period from 2005 to 2010. After increasibng dramatically, the figure for the exports to India increased from 25% to 27% between 2010 and 2012.
