The bar chart shows the percentage of households with cars in a European country between 1971 and 2001. Summarise the information by selecting reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The

given

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bar chart illustrates the proportion of European

households

who used different numbers of

cars

from 1971 to 2001.

Overall

, it can be seen that the percentage of

households

using 1

car

and more than 2

cars

saw an upward trend,

while

the opposite was true for the

cars

which were not used at all.

Additionally

, even though no

car

's figure was the most used at the beginning, it was soon replaced by 1

car

for almost the 30-year period. Looking at the figures for 1

car

and more than 2

cars

in

further

detail, both of them commenced at around 30% and 21% for

households

in 1971. As for 1

car

's percentage, it reached a peak at 40% in 1981 but

then

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significantly to roughly 35% by 1991, before experiencing a steady increase to 50%

at the end

, making it the highest proportion of all. With respect to the percentage of

households

using more than 2

cars

, its trend was similar to

the

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that

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1

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of 1

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car

with

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reaching a peak at 30% in 1981,

pior

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prior

to going down

moderably

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moderately

miserably

to more than 20% by 1991 and

then

went

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up to 35% by 2001. Turning towards the remaining trend which had no

cars

in use, it is obvious that between 1971 and 2001, it just saw a decline from about 45% to 25%.