Some graphs or tables contain a lot of information, so you will not be able to include everything. Look at the exam bar graph below. The number of prisoner in thousands in five different countries from 1930 to 1980

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The information given in the chart makes comparisons in the
number
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of
prisoners
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in five different countries from 1930 to 1980.
While
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the
figures
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for imprisonment fluctuated over the period shown,
it is clear that
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the United States had the highest
number
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of
prisoners
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overall
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. Great Britain,
on the other hand
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, had the lowest
number
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of
prisoners
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for the majority of the period. As can be seen from the graph, the United States had the highest
number
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of
prisoners
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in four out of the six years shown on the chart, and in 1980 the figure for
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country peaked at nearly 140,000
prisoners
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. Canada had the highest
figures
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for imprisonment in 1930 and 1950, with about 120,000
prisoners
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in both years. The
figures
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for New Zealand and Australia fluctuated between 40,000 and 100,000
prisoners
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,
although
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New Zealand's prison population tended to be the higher of the two.
In contrast
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to the
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for the other countries, the
number
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of
prisoners
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in Great Britain rose steadily between 1930 and 1980, reaching a peak of about 80,000
at the end
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of the period.
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