The table below give information about sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in 5 European countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The table below give information about sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in 5 European countries.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The table illustrates the fair trade-labeled
coffee
and bananas sold in two different years, 1999 and 2004, in five European nations: the UK,
Switzerland
, Denmark, Belgium, and Sweden.
Overall
, all five countries's revenue had an increase in the period of 5 years.
Additionally
,
Switzerland
's turnover was the highest among 5 nations in the year 2004 It can be seen in the first table,
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that in
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19999, all of the five countries' income from
coffee
was relatively moderate.
However
, the revenue of
coffee
sales in the UK soared dramatically from 1.5 to 20
million
in 2004 and became the first rank selling in the Fairtrade-labeled
coffee
sector.
This
figure was
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far higher than the second rank country
Switzerland
by 14
million
in the same year. The other nations Denmark, Belgium, and Sweden had a slight increase of 0.2, 0.7, and 0.2, respectively. Turning to the second table, the sale of bananas in
Switzerland
rose over triple from 15
million
in 1999 to over 47
million
in 2004.
Following
this
trend, the UK and Belgium went up significantly to 5.5 and 4
million
, respectively. On the opposite trend, Sweden and Denmark were the only two countries that decreased by nearly half from 1.8 to 1 and 2 to 0.9.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words coffee, switzerland, million with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "table" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "trend" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 2 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • sales figures
  • Fairtrade-labelled
  • substantial rise
  • stable sales
  • modest increase
  • significant increase
  • decline in sales
  • trends
  • comparisons
  • features
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