The pie charts below show units of electricity production by fuel force in Australia and France in 1980 and 2000. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts below show units of electricity production by fuel force in Australia and France in 1980 and 2000. 

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The charts display
units
of
electricity
produced by various sources in two different countries (
Australia
and
France
) in the years 1980 and 2000.
Overall
, the total
production
of
electricity
doubled in 20 years in
France
when
Australia
reached 170
units
in total
production
with an increase of 70%. Both countries had 4 main sources which were coal, oil, natural
gas
, and
hydro
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hydropower
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power
to produce
electricity
. Unlike
Australia
,
France
produced electrical
power
from nuclear sources in both 1980 and 2000. In
Australia
, coal was the main source
by
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of
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producing half of the total
production
of
electricity
in 1980. In 2000, it strengthened its first position and had just over two-thirds proportion of produced
energy
. Hydropowerpower and natural
gas
were following the leader with 20% of
energy
production
each in 1980.
Hydropowerpower
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Hydropower power
slightly increased to 36
units
of
production
while
natural
gas
dramatically decreased to only 2
units
of
electricity
production
.
On the other hand
, in
France
, coal and natural
gas
produced the same amount of
energy
with 20
units
in 1980. The amounts of produced
energy
by oil and nuclear
power
followed
with
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by
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20
units
and 15
units
respectively. The
energy
production
caused by natural
gas
decreased dramatically to only 2
units
whilst the amount of
energy
occured
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produced
by coal remained the same with 25
units
in 2000.
However
, the most significant source was nuclear
power
with over two-thirds of total
energy
produced in 2000.
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