The graph below gives information about the price of bananas in four countries between 1994 and 2004. You should write at least 150 words.

The given bar chart illustrates the

bananas

prices from four different countries in the world over a 10-year period.

Overall

, Japan sold

bananas

at the highest

price

of the other three countries

while

bananas

in the

USA

cost the lowest

price

.

According to

the data, the cost of purchasing

bananas

in Japan fluctuated from 1994 to 2004. In the beginning, the

price

was approximately 3

dollars

.

Then

, it dropped to 2

dollars

per kilogram between 1996 to 1998 and slightly increased in 1999.

On the other hand

, the cost of purchasing

bananas

in Jan was sharply decreased to 1.5

dollars

in 2000, which was lower than the

price

of

bananas

in the

USA

(over 2

dollars

per kilogram) in the same period. To purchase

bananas

in the

USA

, the

price

was constantly the same from 1994 to 1997 before it vary in

price

. it was gently increased to almost 2

dollars

in 1998 and

then

dropped to 1 dollar in 2003. After that, it rose to over 1.5

dollars

per kilogram.

While

, the

price

of

bananas

in Germany fluctuated from 1994 to 2002 from approximately 1.5

dollars

to almost 1 dollar before it remained stable in the years 2002 ,2003 and 2004. For the

USA

banana

price

, it was relatively plateaued at the beginning of 1994 and stabilised for more than 6 years to the end of the year 2004.