Dates Production in 2001

Dates Production in 2001


This bar chart shows the top date producing countries in 2001, by tonnes. It is noticeable that the top six countries are above half a million tonnes.

The country which produced most dates is Egypt, around 1,100,000 tonnes. On the other hand, Libya is the smallest producer and it is a tenth of Egypt’s production with nearly 100,000 tonnes. Moreover, Iran took second place with output of approximately 850,000 tonnes. In addition, the UAE supplied the world with nearly 750,000 tonnes with Algeria around a half of UAE. Also the production of Iraq is close to Pakistan, around 650,000 tonnes. A bit higher, the UAE and Saudi Arabia are matched together with 750,000 tonnes. Finally, Algeria ,Libya, Oman and Sudan are the four countries with less than 400,000 tonnes.

To sum up , date production was over half a million tonnes in six countries , and the other four countries are less than 400,000 tonnes.

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US diet

Changes in the US diet

The two pie charts explain changes in the United States people’s diet between 1990 and 2005. In general, there are no big changes in 1990 and 2005 in eating protein.

The main change was the consumption of starch. I can see that starches intake in 1990 was 22% and it almost doubled to reach 43% in 2005 of the American diet. Also, it is clear there is a steady level of eating the protein, 12% by Americans in 1990 and 2005. In 1990 the percentage of fat was 42% but after that it decreased considerably to 30% in 2005. A similar decrease took place with sugar. In 1990 it was 24% and in 2005 it fell to 15%.

As we can see, the most important changes in the US diet between 1990 and 2005 were eating more starches and less fat and sugar. The diet system got better and healthier as shown.


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