The table chart compare the cost of a cup of coffee in six different cities between 2010 and 2014 in Australia
It is clear that, the majority of the countries followed an increasing pattern in the price of coffee throughout 4 years, except for Brisbane city. Moreover, Melbourne city made up the highest boost in the percentage change in the surveyed chart.
Two prominent price records of coffee were in Melbourne and Sydney, these two cities had the most expensive drink in 2010, which were 2.4 dollars and 2.25 dollars, respectively. Sydney’s citizens must pay 2.9 dollars for a drink in 2010 which was two-fold the price in Canberra city and it was also 0.5 dollars higher than Melbourne. After 4 years, The former still ranked the top position with 3.17 dollars, comparing with the latter underwent an escalator to 2.9 dollars. Although, Melbourne city’s coffee price ranked second in the researched timescale, it experienced the most significant change in the proportion growth with 20.8%.
Switching to the remaining cities, one noticeable figure about Brisbane city is that the cost of coffee remained the same in 4 years with 2.25 dollars per cup. The least change of coffee price after Brisbane was Canberra city with 6.25%, jumping from 1.5 dollars to 1.7 dollars. Furthermore, in 2010 Adelaide and Perth were the cities that had an unpronounced gap with 1.87 dollars and 2.1 dollars before the latter’s coffee price boomed to 2.25 dollars, equal to Brisbane in 2014.