Instructions

Answer the questions based on the following information given below.
The exhibit given below compares the countries (first column) on different economic indicators (first row), from 2000-2010. A bar represents data for one year and a missing bar indicates missing data. Within an indicator, all countries have same scale.

Question 79

Which country (and which year) has witnessed maximum year-to-year decline in “industry as percentage of GDP”? Given that the maximum value of industry as percentage of GDP is 49.7% and the minimum value of industry as percentage of GDP is 20.02%, in the chart above.

Solution

This change can be observed by viewing the chart.

Where all other countries saw a gradual drop in their “industry as a % of GDP”, for Malaysia in 2008-09, the fall was sudden and had the maximum value among the options.

Hence, option D is the answer.


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