The graph below shows the amount of money spent on books in Germany, France, Italy and Austria between 1995 and 2005. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The provided line graph gives information about the expenses of books in the four different countries over a ten-year

period

, between 1995 and 2005.

Overall

, what stands out from the graph is that there was an upward trend through the

period

. The other significant feature of

this

graph is that Austria saw significant spending more money than other countries. Looking at the details, the expenses of France and Austria were a notable increase during the whole

period

, starting at just under 60 and 30

million

dollars at the beginning of the

period

, in 1995. In terms of Austria increased its value to 40

million

dollars in 1999, remaining until 2001. After that, the value jumped to over 70

million

. As regards France, there was a moderate rose to relatively just over 75

million

. Now turning to Germany and Italy, there was an upward trend despite less than others. Spending of Germany and Italy increased from just under 50 and 80 to over 60 and roughly over 95

million

dollars respectively with some fluctuations in the

period

of 10 years.

At the end

of the

period

, Germany held the highest expenditure on books and Italy was the least value.