Band 6+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The bar chart below shows the contribution of three sectors – agriculture, manufacturing, and business and financial services – to the UK economy in the twentieth century. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The graph below delineates the amount of money spent on three different categories – agriculture, manifucturing, business and financial over a 100 year period spanning from 1900 to 2000.

A cursory glance at the data reveals that the business and financial underwent a significant escalation, whereas the other two sectors experienced a significant decline. Most notable the business sector became dominant category by the end of timeframe.

Regarding the upward trend the financial sector commenced the period at a low figure of roughly 5%. This was followed by a period of an exponential growth rising to 30% by the close of the period.

Conversely, the agriculture and manifucturing sectors exhibited a starkly different trend. Starting at much higher figure of 48% agriculture plummeted to a mere figure of 2%. This downward shift was characterized by a exponential drop representing itself as the least prevalent category. In the same vein the manifucture went down sharply but steadily falling from 45 to 15%