1、 The bar chart illustrates oil production capacity in millions of barrels per day for selected Gulf countries. The most significant feature is that oil production increased sharply in almost all the countries shown. We can also see that while most of the countries showed increases, Saudi Arabia main
2、tained and strengthened its position as the major producer. Kuwait and Iraq doubled their output between 1990 and 2010, with the productions rising from 1.8 million and 2.1 million barrels per day (bpd) in 1990 to 3.8 and 3.7 in 2010 respectively. Iran also increased its output by a slightly smaller
3、 amount. After remaining steady at 2.5 million bpd from 1990 to 2000, the UAEs output approached 4.0 million bpd in 2010. Only Qatars production fell, back to 0.8 million bpd after a slight rise in 2000. However, the greatest increase was from Saudi Arabia. In 1990, its output capacity at 8.5 millio
4、n bpd exceeded the combined production of Iran, Iraq and Kuwait. This lead continued with a 75% increase in production to 14.5 million bpd 2010. The table shows percentages of consumer expenditure for three categories of products and services in five countries in 2002. It is clear that the largest proportion of consumer spending in each country went on food, drinks and tobacco. On the other hand, the leisure/education category had the lowest percentages in the table.
