The table below gives information about the percentage of workforce employed in six industries in Australia between 1989 and 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The table depicts data on the proportion of staff working in six industrial fields in Australia from 1989 to 2008. As can be seen, the numbers were ascending in most of them in

this

period of time except for two. Despite the apparent rise in the other four industries, manufacturing and retail, which possessed the highest amount of employers in 1989 indicating 15% and 11.8% respectively, experienced a decline lowering to the percentages of 9.8 and 10.1.

It is clear that

manufacturing had the most significant changes of all.

On the other hand

, healthcare and construction have undergone an increasing pattern. Healthcare reached the number of 11.3 from the baseline of 9.6 in the beginning, and construction faced 0.6 per cent growth from the initial amount of 7.6.

In addition

, education and tourism

also

escalated to the level of 7.5 and 7.3 respectively which showed 0.7 and 0.8 growth in each of them.

To sum up

,

while

the majority of the given fields including healthcare, construction, education and tourism demonstrated an increase in the amount of their workforce, manufacturing and retail displayed a decrease.