The bar chart below shows the percentage of men and women in Great Britain who had driving licenses, and another bar chart shows the percentage of men and women who applied for driving licenses at the age of 17-20.

1The first bar chart illustrates the percentage of men and women with driving licences from 1976 to 2006, and 2the accompanying second bar chartaccompanying the second bar chart breaks down the percentage of young drivers aged from 17 to 20 3in 1996 and 2006.in 1996 and 2006,

Overall, the percentage of men and women with driving licences 4roserose up 5fromform 1976 to 2006, whereas the percentage of young drivers 6fellfalled down in comparison 7between 1996 and 2006from 1996 between 2006. 8Taken together, the charts indicate that though there are more people had driving licences, the young drivers taken a smaller part of it.

In the first chart, the percentage of men rose from about 70% to 80% during the 30 years. 10And the percentage remained stable from 1976 to 1986 as well as 1996 to 2006, showing the 11real increasetruly increasement happened from 1986 to 1996. In contrast to the 12modest increase for mentiny change of men ,the percentage of women doubled 13fromform about 30% to 60%, with an 14average increase ofaverage increasement of percentage points about 5% per 5 years.

A closer look at the second chart shows that the percentage of young drivers 15droppeddropped down from 1996 to 2006 16for both men and womenboth in men and women. In particular, the 17drop for men was about 5 percentage points (from 50% to 45%), half the 10-percentage-point decrease for women (from 30% to 20%)downward percentage points for men is nearly about a half of that for women, which dropped from about 30% to 20%.