The chart below shows the figures for imprisonment in five countries between 1930 and 1980. Write a report for a university, lecturer describing the information shown below.

The bar chart compares data about the number of people who were in jails in 5 various countries, which were from North America, Europe ,and Oceania, from 1930 to 1980.

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, it was important that the trends of all countries other than the UK and the USA reduced over the period of 50 years.

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the diagram, Canada, the main country that had a lot of imprisonment in 1930, declined moderately from 120 in 1930 to the minimum mark of just over 80 in 1970;

however

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, it rose to 90 in 1980. The USA and New Zealand hit the same figure at 100 in 1930;

then

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New Zealand fell enormously to the lowest point at nearly 50 in 1940;

thereafter

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, it climbed considerably to roughly the same score as Canada;

In contrast

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, America jumped to 130 in 1940;

nevertheless

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, it decreased somewhat and touched the nadir at approximately 95 in 1970, but it grew significantly to just under 140 in 1980. The graph demonstrates that Australia scored 70 in 1930; it dropped sharply to 45 in 1950;

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, it leapt slightly to 65, the same as the UK and New Zealand scores, in 1970 after that it dipped to 50 in 1980.Great Britain improved from 30 in 1930 to almost 85 in 1980.