The pie charts show the amount of electricity produced from different sources in two countries in 1980 and

2000. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. The charts compare the sources of electricity in Australia and France in the years 1980 and 2000. Within these years, electricity production almost doubled, rising from 100 and 90 units in 1980 to 170 and 180 units in 2000 respectively.

In 1980 Australia used coal as the main source of energy (50 units) and this trend was followed by natural gas, hydro power with the same proportion (20 units) and oil (which was produced 10 units). By 2000, coal had become more popular with almost three quarters and hydro power had another significant source supplying approximately 20%. In contrast, France used coal as a source for only 25 units of electricity in 1980, which was matched by natural gas. The other 40 units were produced from oil, natural gas, hydro power with 20, 15 and 5 units respectively. By 2000 nuclear power, which was not

used at all in Australia, had become the main recourse with almost 70%. Coal and oil were produced the same (25 units) and other sources were no logger significant. Overall, it can be seen that two countries relied on different fuel recourses in 2000, France relied on coal and Australia relied on nuclear power respectively.