Band 6+: The two pie charts show the exportation of products from Australia over two years. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts show data on the Australian commodities exported in 2005 and 2010.

Generally speaking, the fraction of goods of Australia sold oversea had been re-segmented over the period of 5 years.

Looking first at iron and coal – two key exported products in Australia economy. In 2005, coal accounted for the largest proportion (nearly one third of total amount), which was the same as 2010, only the figure had risen to 43%. In contrast, iron experienced a considerable decrease by 12% over 5-year period.

Moving to other products, in 2005, wheat ranked the third among all categories. However, this position then was shifted to meat in 2010, accounting for 13% of goods sold to other countries, compared to 10% amount of meat. Besides, the total fraction of others remained stable at 14% in both years.