The chart below shows the number of households in the US by their annual income in 2007, 2011 and 2015. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart below shows the number of households in the US by their annual income in 2007, 2011 and 2015.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The bar chart gave data regarding the American household units (in
millions
) in the years 2007, 2011, and 2015. Each year's data was divided into five groups
according to
yearly income bands. The
overall
proportion of each income band remained roughly unchanged in these 3 years,
while
only the number of families earning more than 1
million
dollars, exceeded 30
million
in 2015. Looking at the first two bars from the left , the two branches of household with annual salaries of less than or equal to $49999 changed with the same pattern in 3 years, both increasing by more than 2.5
million
in 2011, before falling again in 2015. The third bar represented the number of families who earned a salary between $50000 and $74999, and its height remained constant at the 21
million
line.
In contrast
, households in branches of outweighing and equaling 1
million
dollars reduced by around 2.5
millions
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, falling down from 29
millions
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in 2007 to 27
millions
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in 2011, and went up to approximately 33
millions
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in 2015. The figures
of
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households with annual salaries between $75000 and $99999 followed the same changing pattern, slightly fluctuating around 15
millions
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.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • household distribution
  • income brackets
  • annual income
  • percentage change
  • trend analysis
  • income group
  • significant increase/decrease
  • steady growth/decline
  • fluctuations
  • compared to
  • in contrast
  • notably
  • median income
  • poverty line
  • economic factors
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