The line graphs below show the production and demand for steel in million tonnes and the number of workers employed in the steel industry in the UK in 2010.

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information about the employment status and the value changes in the

UK

steel

industry during 1970-2000.

Overall

, the total

demand

of

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steel

in the

UK

fell, leading to a significant decrease in the

labor

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force over the period.

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UK

steel

production witnessed the same trend as the total

UK

demand

,

while

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steel

import had

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opposite. In 1970, the number of workers employed in the

steel

industry peaked at 50,000. Over the following years, the figure for employment in the

UK

steel

industry declined significantly to around 17,000 in the year 2000. The year 1970

also

witnessed the total

demand

for

steel

in the

UK

around

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200,000 tonnes,

while

the figures for production and imports were around 160,000 tonnes and 10,000 tonnes respectively.

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decades later, both the

demand

and the production of

steel

nearly halved,

while

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steel

increased substantially to approximately 70,000.