The table below gives information about the percentage of workforce employed in six industries in Australia between 1989 and 2009

The table illustrates data regarding the proportion of workers employed in six parts of industries in Australia for two decades.

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, it can be seen that manufacturing accounted for most of the workforce in 1989 and was replaced by healthcare in 2009,

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the opposite is tourism. It can

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be observed that there were two figures that saw a downtrend and the others were uptrend. To commence, in 1989, manufacturing stood at the highest proportion of the workforce at 15%, followed by retail at 11.8%. For the next 20 years, these figures dramatically dropped, 9.8% for manufacturing and 10.1% for retail. Moving onto the remaining statistics, these trends all increased in the following period. Healthcare began with 9.6% and

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with 11.3%, which was the highest. Construction started at 7.6% in 1989,

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it rose 0.7% in the following 20 years. Education and tourism have the begin not really similar, at 6.8% and 5.5%,

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, in 2009, the percentages of them were nearly the same, at 7.5% and 7.3%, respectively.