The line charts give information about the demand for steel and number of workers employed in a country from January to December.

The charts detail

demand

for steel and the number of workers employed in a given country over a one-year year period. Looking from an

overall

perspective, it is readily apparent that both

demand

and employment fluctuated but followed similar downward trends. By the end of the period, actual

demand

had overtaken

production

. In the first 2 months of the year, workers (6,000), steel

production

(5,000) and actual

demand

(3,000) peaked. From there, the number of workers fell steeply to 3,000 in March and was flat through April,

while

production

dropped below 4,000 tonnes and remained stable until July. Actual

demand

also

decreased, though it fluctuated between 2 and 3,000 tonnes through September, before plummeting to 0 in November and recovering to 2,000 in December.

This

end-of-year pattern was largely mirrored by both

production

and employment as the former crashed from a second peak of nearly 5,000 in July to under 1,000 by the end of the period (with no recovery). Employment numbers rose to 3,500 in August and had steadily subsided to 1,000 by the end of the year.