The line graph shows the percentages of Australian exports with four countries. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The line graph illustrates how
Australia
exported its products to four countries, including Japan
, the US, China
, and India
, between 1990 and 2012.
Overall
, there was an increase in the proportion of Australian exports
to India
and China
, with the most dramatic rise being seen in the latter, making it the largest export destination for Australia
by the end of the period
. In contrast
, exports
to the US and Japan
experienced a decrease over the given timeframe.
Looking at the chart in more detail, in 1990, among the four destinations, India
and China
were the smallest export partners for Australia
, with negligible figures of 1% and 2%, respectively. Thereafter
, China
's importance significantly increased over the period
, as the percentage of exports
to this
country steadily rose to 5% by 2000, before surging more than fivefold to 27% in the final year. Likewise
, India
maintained a marginal presence in Australia
's export market, at just 1% for the first decade, after which its share slightly increased, reaching a peak of 7% in 2010, before falling back to 5% two years later.
With regard to the remaining countries, in the first year, Japan
was the leading destination shown for Australian goods, with more than a quarter of total exports
going there, twice the figure for the US, at 11%. In the following years, the figures for Japan
fell to 17%,
and stayed unchanged in the two final years. Remove the comma
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Similarly
, the share of Australian exports
to the US underwent a downward fluctuation throughout the period
, bottoming out at 5% in 2010 before a modest recovery to 7% by the end of the period
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