Australian exports to 4 countries from 1990 to 2012
The given line graph illustrate the data on the export of Australian to 4 countries including Japan,US,China and India over the period of 22 years starting from 1990 to 2012.
Overall, the proportion of China and India witnessed the upward trend meanwhile Japan and US showed the opposite site.Before 2005,the figure of Japan was the highest point after being surpassed by China from 2005 to 2012.
As can be seen in the graph,accounting for around 2% at the start of the period,China rose significantly 10 years later with 5% in 2000 and rocketted to overtake the first place of Japan with 30% in 2012.Regarding to India,there was a slight increase from 1990 to 2000 with 2% in 2000 and then went up considerably with nearly 8% in 2010.Yet,the figure declined at the end of the period with above 55 in 2012.
By contrast,Japan dominated the export of Australia in 1990 with 26%.The proportion went down in 1995 with 20% and continued to plummet with nearly 18% in 2012.Similar to Japan,US experienced an decrease with under 10% in 1995,almost 10 times higher than India.In 2000,there was a dramatic increase with around 12% after decreasing with 6% in 2010 and then uplifted slighly with 7% in 2012