The pie charts below show the percentage of five kinds of books sold by a bookseller between 1972 and 2012

The pie charts below show the percentage of five kinds of books sold by a bookseller between 1972 and 2012
The provided charts compare how many books are sold by a bookseller over a 40-year period.
Overall
, what stands out from the charts is that in 1972 the figures for
Adult
fiction
, Children’s
fiction
, and
Biography
had a similar percentage, with that for
Adult
fiction
seeing the largest increase. Looking at the data for 1972, the proportions of
adult
fiction
, children's
fiction
, and
biography
sales
were equal to one-fifth, with each of them being half of the other book
sales
. In 1992, there was a gradual rise to 25% and 22% in
sales
of
adult
fiction
and children’s
fiction
respectively.
In contrast
, the indicator of
biography
sales
decreased to 15%. The shares of travel book
sales
went up steadily to 18%, being smaller than those of other books by a margin of 2%. Regarding rates in 2012, there was a considerable increase of 20% in the percentage of
adult
fiction
, accounting for 45% of the total and making
sales
with the highest proportion. Turning to the share of children’s
fiction
, it saw a small growth to 25%, representing the second-highest indicator. With regard to Travel and
Biography
sales
, the former and the latter made up 10% and 8% of the total respectively compared with the percentage of others,
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indicated 12%.
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