The charts show how five industries helped the economy of Australia between 2005 and 2009, and how many people worked in these sectors in 2009. In general, the services industry gave the biggest support to the economy and also had the most workers.
From the line graph, we can see that services always had the highest contribution to the economy, going up to about 45% in 2009. Mining also grew during these years, from around 10% to 20%, and became more important than manufacturing and agriculture. Agriculture and construction were the lowest, and agriculture went down a little bit.
In the pie chart, services gave jobs to 57.5% of all workers in 2009, which matches its strong place in the economy. Manufacturing and construction had 13.1% and 11.2% of workers. Although mining helped the economy more than some others, only 5.3% of people worked in that sector, which shows it needed fewer workers to make more mo
ney.