The chart below shows the percentage of people accessing news via different media in one country in 2013, 2015 and 2017. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart below shows the percentage of people accessing news via different media in one country in 2013, 2015 and 2017. 

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The bar chart illustrates the viewers or readers
proportion
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of four different media accesses that provided people with news in one country in 2013, 2015 and 2017. The four media were television, printed newspapers, radio and the
Internet
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. In 2013, about 80% of people watched television to access news, followed by newspapers, radio and the
Internet
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at 42%, 32% and, 32% respectively.
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the percentage of television viewers dropped to 68% in 2015 and only increased a little bit back to 71% in 2017, it was still the largest
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at three points.
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, the population of newspaper readers went down gradually from 42% to 22% from 2013 to 2017
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radio audiences remained roughly at 30%.
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, the percentage of
Internet
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users boosted dramatically from 32% to 78% from 2015 to 2017. And became the second largest
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which was merely three percent less than the first in 2017.
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, the percentage of the population accessing news via all types of media showed a downward trend
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the
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of
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users showed a twofold increase.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words proportion, internet with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 4 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increased" was used 2 times.
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