The line chart compares the quantity of residents who speak Chinese, Arabic, Italian, Greek in Australia from 1986 to 2011.
Overall, with the exception of Chinese and Arabic, whose figures experienced an upward trend, the data for Italian and Greek witnessed a downward shift. Furthermore, the ranking varied across the years surveyed.
Starting at 100,000 in 1986, the number of people speak Chinese as their mother language significantly soared to 350,000 in 2011 with a remarkable climb of 50,000 every 5 years. Similarly, the data for Arabic exhibited a stable growth during the period, but with a smaller quinquennial increase of 25,000 compared to Chinese.
On the other hand, the quantity of residents who spoke Greek in Australia decreased slightly from 225,000 in the first year surveyed to 175,000 in 2011. The similar tendency was witnessed in the figure for Italian, which began at 150,000 and declined to 100,000 in 2006 before stabilizing for the next 5 years.