The line chart illustrates the profits contributing to the Australian economy by agriculture, manufacturing, mining, services and construction from 2005 to 2009, while the pie chart shows the breakdown of the total employment rate by sectors in 2009.
Overall, services were the biggest contributor to the Australian economy, while agriculture contributed the smallest amount of money. additionally, services workforce accounted for the largest share of the total employment in the economy of Australia.
As can be seen from the line chart, the amount of money contributed by services industry outstood the rest sectors, increasing significantly from 45% in 2005 to 50% in 2009. The figure for both manufacturing and agriculture witnessed a margin drop to 10% and 2% in the last year of the period, while that of construction and mining remained steady over the years.
What stands out from the pie chart is that the largest share of the total employment rate was dominated by service workers, at 57.3%. Meanwhile, around one fifth of the total employees worked in mining industry, followed by construction and manufacturing, at around 13%. In addition, agriculture took up a tiny share of 5.9%