The pie chart and bar chart demonstrate bottled water consumption in various regions as a percentage of global consumption, and the bar chart shows the growth of bottled water consumption in 2001. The pie chart illustrates the tendency of using bottled water in 1999. Western European countries dominated bottled-water use at about 48%. Australia accounted for approximately 15%, followed by its neighbour New Zealand at around 13%. The tendency in Latin America was 10%. The African continent and the Middle East had the same percentage, around 5% each. Bottled-water consumption in Asia was very low, at about 2%.
The bar chart illustrates similar data, but for 2001. As we can see, Asia moved to the top of the chart. In Asia, the popularity of drinking bottled water increased to about 14%. A similar rate is seen in New Zealand and Latin America, each at around 12%. Consumption also became more common in Africa and the Middle East, reaching approximately 9-10%. Australia and the USA were at the same level, about 8%. Meanwhile, the tendency of drinking bottled water in Western Europe became less common, falling to about 3%.
Overall, the trend of using bottled water became more popular in some regions and less popular in others. For instance, Asia was the lowest consumer in 1999 but became the highest by 2001.