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This grouped bar chart compares average journeys made per person each year in Great Britain, contrasting 2002 with 2022 across five transport modes. Car travel dominates in both years but fell from about 640 to 560 journeys per person. Bus use also declined, dropping from 90 to 60. In contrast, rail journeys rose from 20 to 35, and cycling edged up slightly. Walking stayed broadly stable near 230. Overall, while the car remains by far the most common mode, reliance on cars and buses has fallen over the two decades, with rail showing the clearest growth.

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This line graph shows the renewable share of electricity generation in Germany and Japan from 2010 to 2022, as a percentage. Both countries started close together, near eighteen percent in 2010. Germany then climbed steeply and steadily, reaching about forty-six percent by 2022. Japan rose far more gradually, increasing from eighteen to roughly twenty-two percent over the same period. As a result, the gap between the two widened dramatically, from almost nothing to over twenty percentage points. Overall, Germany made rapid progress in renewables while Japan's expansion remained comparatively slow.

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This pie chart shows how an average urban household divides its monthly budget across five categories, as a percentage of total spending. Housing is clearly the largest slice at about thirty-five percent, followed by food at twenty-two percent. Transport takes a fifth of the budget at around eighteen percent, while leisure accounts for fifteen percent. Savings make up the smallest portion at just ten percent. Overall, essential costs such as housing, food and transport together consume roughly three-quarters of household income, leaving relatively little for leisure and saving.

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This table presents life expectancy at birth, in years, for five countries in 1990 and 2020, separated by sex. Japan records the highest figures throughout, rising to eighty-four years for women and eighty-one for men by 2020. Every country shows gains over the thirty years, with India improving the most, climbing from around fifty-eight to seventy years. Women consistently outlive men across all nations, typically by four to six years. Overall, life expectancy increased everywhere, yet a clear gap remains between wealthier nations like Japan and developing countries such as India and Nigeria.

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This grouped bar chart compares the number of international students, in thousands, enrolled in four host countries in 2015 and 2023. The United States led in both years, growing from about nine hundred to one million one hundred thousand. The United Kingdom rose modestly from four hundred and forty to five hundred thousand. The most striking change is Canada, which more than doubled from two hundred to four hundred and fifty thousand, almost catching the UK. Australia also climbed from three hundred to four hundred and twenty thousand. Overall, every destination grew, but Canada expanded fastest over the period.

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This line graph tracks the share of the population living in urban and rural areas of a developing country between 1980 and 2020, as a percentage. In 1980, the country was predominantly rural, with about seventy percent in the countryside and thirty percent in cities. Over the four decades the two lines steadily converged and then crossed around the year 2005, when each stood near fifty percent. By 2020 the pattern had reversed, with sixty-five percent urban and thirty-five percent rural. Overall, the graph captures a clear and continuous shift from rural to urban living.

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This pie chart shows how total global energy consumption is divided among end-use sectors, expressed as a percentage. Industry is the largest consumer at about thirty-eight percent of all energy used. Transport follows at twenty-eight percent, while residential buildings account for a fifth, around twenty percent. Commercial and public services take roughly ten percent, and agriculture uses the smallest share at just four percent. Overall, industry and transport together consume around two-thirds of global energy, underlining why efforts to cut emissions tend to focus most heavily on these two sectors.

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This line graph compares average fixed broadband download speeds, in megabits per second, in South Korea and Italy from 2014 to 2022. Both nations improved, but at very different rates. South Korea began ahead at around fifty megabits and surged to roughly two hundred and ten by 2022. Italy started much lower, near fifteen megabits, and climbed more slowly to about ninety. Consequently, the gap between the two widened from thirty-five to over a hundred megabits. Overall, while broadband speeds rose in both countries, South Korea maintained and extended a substantial lead throughout the period.

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This grouped bar chart compares the proportion of adults using four social media platforms, as a percentage, among two age groups: under thirty-fives and over thirty-fives. Younger adults use every platform more heavily, especially video-sharing apps, where their usage reaches about eighty-five percent against fifty percent for older adults. The gap is widest for short-video platforms and narrowest for messaging, which both groups use heavily at around seventy-five and seventy percent. Professional networking is the only category where older adults nearly match the young. Overall, platform use declines with age, though the size of that gap varies sharply by platform.

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This table shows research and development spending as a percentage of national income for five countries in 2010 and 2021. South Korea leads throughout, raising its investment from three point five to four point nine percent, the highest of any nation. Germany and the United States sit in a middle band, both rising to around three percent by 2021. China shows the steepest climb, more than doubling from one point seven to two point four percent. Brazil remains lowest, increasing only marginally to about one point three percent. Overall, R&D spending grew across all five economies, with Asian nations advancing most rapidly.

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