The chart below gives information on the global sale of hybrid vehicles* between 2006 and 2009. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph presents the worldwide sales of hybrid automobiles from 2006 to 2009.

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it is clear that

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the United States of America was the dominant in the years between 2006 and 2008.

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, in 2009, the highest was

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.

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and other nations were growing in

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. Looking at the chart more closely, one can see that

Japan

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and other regions were very close in the first three years, but in 2009,

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's sales figures increased suddenly. It gained about 240,000 in one year. A downward trend can be observed in America during the

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2007 to 2009. In the beginning, the United States's performance accounted

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than 60% of

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market, but in 2009, it was only around 40%,

due to

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the rise of Japanese sales. In 2006, the number of the US report was 250,000, and in the next year, it became 350,000. That was a big improvement for

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country, but in the following years, the data was not good.