Report

The graphic shows the money in US dollars (millons) spent on books since 1995 to 2005. The money spent embrace since 0 to 100 US dollars, and the countries analyzed are Germany, France, Italy and Austria. From that the intention is establish a relation between money spent on books inside these mentioned countries and how this has increased or decreased during a period of ten years.

Austria as the first country analyzed, was the country that spent the fewest dollars on the first years, since 1995 until 2003 in compares with the other countries. On 1995 the money spent was 30 dollars, then go up a little till year 1999 catching 40 dollars, to continue, the money remain steady until 2001. On that year the money spent has increased rapidly till year 2003 reaching 60 dollars, and finally increase rapidly until year 2005 attaining a little more than 70 dollars.

Following with Italy as the second country, on 1995 started with 50 dollars until year 1997 when the money improved a few catching around 55 dollars, since last year mentioned the money spent fall a little going back to 50 dollars. After that since 1999 the money grew until year 2005 catching a little more than 60 dollars, being low than Austria.

France started with around 55 dollars on year 1995 increasing exponentially until year 2001 with money spent near to 70 dollars, then the cash increased slightly until year 2005 catching around 78 dollars, staying above Austria and Italy.

Finally we have Germany has the country who spent the most money on books, starting with 80 dollars on year 1995, then climbed till 1999 hitting a peak of 90 dollars, then goes down slightly until 2003 with around 85 dollars, and lastly, line chart rise a little reaching around 95 dollars

As a conclusion these four countries don’t go down of 30 dollars and none of them get to 100 dollars. Germany is on top because maybe the books are more expensive and the people buy less or the books are inexpensive and the people buy a lot, and Austria as the country with less money spent could arrived till 70 dollars on 2005, having a difference of 50. We could say that reading books it’s a very important way to learn, and the prices are important for the accessibility.