Answer the questions based on the given figure below. From 2000 to 2005 in…

Concept: Percentage growth for a year is measured against the immediately preceding year: Growth% = ((this year's value − previous year's value) / previous year's value) × 100. The year with the highest growth is the one where this percentage — not the raw increase in units — is the largest.

Reading the Imports (red) bars from the chart for 2000–2005: 50, 100, 130, 100, 140, 180. Applying the formula year by year:

1. 2001 over 2000: ((100 − 50) / 50) × 100 = 100%

2. 2002 over 2001: ((130 − 100) / 100) × 100 = 30%

3. 2003 over 2002: ((100 − 130) / 130) × 100 ≈ −23.08% (a decline, not growth)

4. 2004 over 2003: ((140 − 100) / 100) × 100 = 40%

5. 2005 over 2004: ((180 − 140) / 140) × 100 ≈ 28.57%

Cross-check: comparing all five results — 100%, 30%, a decline, 40%, and 28.57% — the 2001 figure is by far the largest, more than double the next-highest year.

So the growth in imports compared to the previous year was highest in 2001.