The table illustrates the proportion of workforce employed in six different industries such as manufacturing, retail, health care, construction, education, and tourism in Australia from 1989 to 2009.
In general, there was a noticeable increase in the percentage of working force by health care, construction, education, and tourism, while the data for manufacturing, retail show a downward trend. Notably, the figure for manufacturing was highest among the five categories throughout the period from 1989, but that for health care was larger than for any other in the remaining years.
Analyzing the information in greater detail, in 1989, 15% of people working in the workforce by manufacturing, compared to 11.8% by retail and 9.6% by health care. Over the subsequent 20 years, Australia saw a significant decrease in the proportion of workforce employed by manufacturing, reaching 9.8% in 2009. Additionally, the figure for health care gradually climbed to 11.3%, but retail declined slightly to 10.1% at the end of the period.
Turning to the other categories, the percentage of people working in the workforce by construction stood at 7.6% in 1989, followed by education at 6.8% and tourism at 7.3%. Over the next 20 years, the proportion of workforce employed by construction, and education at 8.3%, 7.5%, respectively, in 2009. Finaly, tourism followed a similar trend, with the figure eventually increasing roughly 7.3% in the final year.