Contained in the given table are data about Asian, European, and the rest of the world’s manufactures during the period of 160 years commencing from 1840.
In general, it can be observed that the output of Asia and Europe decreased, with some fluctuations, whereas the opposite was true for the rest of the world from 1840 to 2000. It is also noticeable that Asian production was the highest in 1840 but the lowest in the remaining years.
Looking at the categories with upward trends, it is evident that, at the beginning, Asian production was the highest, at 50%, but it had a significant decline of more than half to only 20%, becoming the category with the lowest production in the subsequent years before recovering to roughly 46% in 2000. It is also worth noting that Europe produced 40% in 1840 and had a gradual increase, reaching the peak of 50%, before having a marked reduction of approximately half at the end of the surveyed time span.
Turning to the output of the rest of the world, it is clear that it started at only 10% initially, then had a noticeable increase of 15% in 1880 and continued going up to approximately 38% in the next 80 years, then had a slight fall to around 33% in 2000.