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 three-bar chart illustrates the proportion of families with none, one or more than two cars in one European country from 1971 to 2001. A downward trend in the number of households with no cars was among the most notable features. To be more accurate, in 1971, approximately 45% of families did not use an automobile for transportation,

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30 years later, preferences certainly had shifted since

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percentage dropped to almost 30%.

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, the proportions of families with one car and more than two cars followed a similar but opposite trend. More specifically, both figures showed an

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increase over

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thirty-year period, rising from approximately 30% and 25% to nearly 50% and over 35%, respectively. Worth to be mentioned is that these two percentages first noticed a minimal decrease in 1991 before reaching their highest values in 2001.