Question

Analyze the charts below and answer the question that follows.

Occupations in Europe Four pie charts titled Occupations in Europe.
The top left chart is labeled France.
Services is 72 percent, Industry is 24 percent, and Agriculture is 4 percent.
The top right chart is labeled Poland.
Services is 54 percent, Industry is 29 percent, and Agriculture is 17 percent.
The bottom left chart is labeled Italy.
Services is 65 percent, Industry is 31 percent, and Agriculture is 4 percent.
The bottom right chart is labeled Romania.
Services is 47 percent, Industry is 23 percent, and Agriculture is 30 percent.
Data courtesy of the CIA World Factbook

Using complete sentences, explain what the charts above say about industry, service, and agriculture in Europe.

Answer 1

The pie charts tell a similar history: services are the dominant economic sector in all countries, industry comes second, and agriculture lags behind in third place.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

The pie charts tell a similar history: services are the dominant economic sector in all countries, industry comes second, and agriculture lags behind in third place.

Step-by-step explanation:

However, the situation is not the same for all countries. Western European Countries like France and Italy have much larger services sectors, and much smaller agriculture sectors than Eastern European Countries like Romania and Poland.

This is because as countries become more developed, their services and industry sectors tend to grow at the expense of the agricultural sector, and Western Europe is more developed than Eastern Europe.