The bar chart below shows the sector contributions to India’s gross domestic product from 1960 to 2000. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar graph illustrates the relative

percentage

contributions made by the agricultural, industrial and service sectors to the Indian economy between 1960 and 2000. Over the whole time period, the significance of agriculture declined steadily

while

services grew in importance decade by decade. A different

patterned

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emerged for industry, which

initially

showed a slowly increasing

percentage

but

then

plateaued from 1980 onwards. In 1960, agriculture contributed by far the highest

percentage

of GDP, peaking at 62%, but it

then

dropped in steady increments to a low of 12% in 2000. The service sector,

on the other hand

, had a relatively minor impact on the economy in 1960.

This

situation changed gradually at

first,

then

its

percentage

contribution jumped from 28% to 43% between 1980 and 1990. By 2000 it matched the high point reached by agriculture in 1960, showing a reversal in the

overall

trend. Industry remained a steady contributor to India’s wealth throughout the period. As a sector, it grew marginally from 16% in 1960 to exactly a quarter in 1980

then

remained static for the next two decades, maintaining a constant share of the

overall

GDP.