Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Top Ten Date-Producing Countries, 2001

The chart shows the top ten date producing countries in 2001. These countries in North Africa and the Arabian Gulf, which are famous for exporting dates to the world. It shows which country takes the first place in production in the world.
Egypt takes the top place for date producing in the world. It’s about one million and one hundred thousand tones. Iran produces two hundred thousand tones less than Egypt. The UAE and Saudi Arabia are rivaling each other with about 740,000 tons each. Pakistan and Iraq both have production of 630,000 tones, each one. Algeria send to the world about 400 thousands tones and Oman around a ¼ million. In Lastly, Sudan’s and Libya’s crops yielded under 0.2 million each.
Finally, some of these countries are producing more than 800 thousand tones like Egypt and Iran. Also some countries between 400 to 800 thousand tones like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iraq and Pakistan. Finally, under 400 thousand tones come from Algeria, Oman, Sudan and Libya.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Pie Charts: Valentine’s Day Gifts

These pie charts show what the men and women buy for each other on Valentine’s Day in the USA. Both of them take the first choice of cards 18% of men and 27% of women. For the candy women choose more than men. 21% for women and 14% for men.16% of men like to buy flowers but for women just 11%. 10% of men buy jewelry but, for women just 9%. Also 7% of men choose to buy lingerie, but just 4% of women. 6% of men like to buy personal care for women, where as just 1% of women like to buy personal care for men. 10% of women buy perfume for men, while only 4% of men choose perfume. 25% of men and 17% of women buy other things.
The main choice for both men and women are cards, however and candy. 48% of men and 59% of women buy these things.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

UK Budget: Where the money goes

This pie chart shows the information on UK government spending in 1996. The total budget spent is £ 315 billion.
The government spent a lot of this money on social security, £100 billion. Secondly it spent on health and personal social services about £53 billion. Education took £38 billion. £25 billion was spent on Debt interest and £22 billion on Defence. Also the government spent £17 billion on law and order, £15 billion on housing, heritage and environment and £13 billion on Industry, agriculture and employment. The government spent £9 billion on transport. Other expenditure was £23 billion.
The main feature in the pie chart is the large amount spent on social security, twice the amount spent on the next two biggest categories combined, health and education.