The bar chart below shows the percentage of share of total world production by Asia, Europe and other parts of the world from the years 1840 to 2000.

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bar chart compares data about the fraction of the total goods that were produced in the world by Asia,

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and others between 1840 and 2000.

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, it was important that the trend of Asia and

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reduced over the period of 60 years.

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the graph, at the start, Asia, the main continent that manufactured most products in the world, hit just over 50%;

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its portion declined significantly and reached the nadir at one-fifth in 1920;

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, it climbed moderately to just under 40% in 2000. The diagram demonstrates that

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, the second region, touched 40% in 1840;

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, it rose slightly and peaked at roughly 48% in 1920;

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, it fell to nearly 28% in 2000. In the beginning, the rest of the world recorded approximately 10% after that, it jumped considerably to the highest mark, which was nearly the same as

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,at almost 36% in 1960;

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its proportion of about 5% went down in 2000.