The line chart illustrates the proportion of households in a country that owned four different devices – computers, mobile phones, MP3 players and tablets between 1995 and 2015.
From an overall perspective, it is evident that there was an upward trend in the ownership of all four devices. It is also noteworthy that computers and mobile phones were the most popular items, while MP3 players remained at the least common.
As depicted from the chart, in the initial year, around 10% of households owned computers and mobile phones. This was followed by a period of significant growth, computers increased steadily to 60%, while mobile phones rocketed to about 80% by 2005. The proportion of MP3 players started at 15% and gradually increased to 30% in the same year. However, tablets were not recorded during this period since they did not appear.
Shifting focus to the later year, the growth of mobile phones slowed but still peaked at approximately 90% at the end of the period. Computers continued to grow strongly at an equal level with mobile phones, about 90% at the end of the period. Tablets appeared in the mid-2000s and increased dramatically, hitting 70% in the final year. Conversely, MP3 players reached a high of 30% in 2005, after which they fluctuated slightly between 35% and 40%, before peaking at 41% at the end of the period.