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The line graph shows oil production and consumption in China from 1982 to 2006, indicating that consumption consistently exceeded production, with both figures increasing overall. Oil production stabilized for about 8 years before gradually rising to 3.8 million barrels by 2006, while consumption surged to nearly 6.1 million barrels. Additionally, a separate graph illustrates Australian exports to four nations from 1990 to 2012, highlighting China's rise as the major market, while exports to Japan and the US fluctuated and those to India increased before declining.

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The line graph shows oil production and consumption in China from 1982 to 2006, indicating that consumption consistently exceeded production, with both figures increasing overall. Oil production stabilized for about 8 years before gradually rising to 3.8 million barrels by 2006, while consumption surged to nearly 6.1 million barrels. Additionally, a separate graph illustrates Australian exports to four nations from 1990 to 2012, highlighting China's rise as the major market, while exports to Japan and the US fluctuated and those to India increased before declining.

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The line graph details the amount of oil produced and consumed in China over the

24-year course from 1982 to 2006.

The initial impression from the chart is that China generally consumed more oil that
it could actually produce over the given period. It is also clear that both figures
experienced overall increases, despite the fact that oil production underwent around
8 years of stability.

In 1982 around 1.8 million oil barrels were consumed and 2 million were produced.
Over the next 12 years, whilst oil production rose gradually to 3 million in 1986 and
subsequently stagnated at this point until 1994, oil consumption underwent a steady
rise, with its figure increasing to 3.5 million in 1994.

From this point onwards, the amount of oil produced maintained its upward
streak, albeit at a moderate level, and eventually it reached its high of 3.8 million in
2006. The figure for oil consumed, meanwhile, surged with an exponential gradient,
making a more than two-fold leap in the last year alone, by which time it had
reached almost 6.1 million barrels, relatively higher compared to the figure for oil
production.
The given line graph compares the proportion of Australian exports to four different
nations over the 12-year course between 1990 and 2012.

The initial impression from the graph is that over the given course, China gradually
became the major export market with its figure being the only one undergoing a
steady upward trend among the four nations surveyed.

In 1990, Australian exports to Japan stood at approximately 26%. This figure


thereafter underwent a sharp drop to 20% in 1995, followed by another drop,
although milder, over the next 17 years to around 18%. The figure for
China, albeit starting at a relatively low position of only 3%, experienced a steady
rise to 5% over the next 5 years and eventually reached an all-time high of 28% in
2012.

Exports to the US, meanwhile, fluctuated between 8% and 10% in the first 15 years of
the period, after which the figure went down to 5% in 2010 and recovered a little bit
to 6% in 2012. Exports to India were near zero in the first 10 years, but later rose
gradually to 7% 2010 and eventually dipped to 5% in 2012.

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