The chart below shows the changes in the percentage of households with cars in one European country between 1971 and 2001.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The provided bar graph highlights the proportion of households owning vehicles in a European country over a period of 4 decades.

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, the number of families owning one or more cars increased over the years.

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, the number of households without a car lessened every year. The

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reported figures, show that only one-third of the people owned a car, and even fewer people possessed the ownership of more than 1, i.e. 25%. These figures witnessed an upward trend and by 2001, slightly less than half of the households in the country had a car, and almost 35% of them owned more than 1. The exception to

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rising trend was in the 90s, were these numbers suffered an approximate fall of 3-5%.

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almost half the homes in the country did not

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possess

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automobile.

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number only followed a declining trend, decreasing by over 10% over the years.