The pie chart below shows bottled water consumption in various regions as a percent of global consumption and bar chart shows the growth of bottled water consumption in 2001.
The pie chart gives information about the percentage of bottled
water
usage in different areas of the world in 1999 and the bar chart illustrates how it grew in 2001.
Overall
, most part of bottled water
was consumed in Asia
at the beginning of the period while
Western Europe
and the USA were the regions with less bottled water
usage. At the end
of the period, most of the given regions (Asia
, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, New Zealand, Australia and the USA) experienced significant growth in terms of drinking bottled water
except Western Europe
.
Middle East and Africa were few bottled water
consumers with only 5% each in 1999 but in 2001 the rate of bottled water
intake increased by nearly 10 % in both areas. A similar situation occurred in Latin America and New Zealand where bottled water
usage was 10% and 13%, respectively in 1999. Both Latin America and New Zealand experienced the same level of growth in 2001 which was about 13% each.
While
Asia
was the most bottled water
consumer at the beginning of the period with 48%, Western Europe
and the US were the least bottled water
users among given regions. In 2001 Asia
kept its leadership in terms of bottled water
intake with an increase of 14% at the same time Western Europe
experienced only around 3% growth. In contrast
to Western Europe
, in the US there was a significant increase (nearly 8%) in the rate of bottled water
consumption in 2001.Submitted by akram.amirkulov on
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