The graph and table below show the number of fishers in millions for different regions in 1980, 1990, and 2000, and the world's top exporters of fish in 2000.

The chart compares the population of fishermen from five different regions in three decades - 1980, 1990 and 2000, and the table lists the top-ten fish exporters in the year 2000. Overall, the highest number of fishers lived in the Asian continent and their number soared dramatically and more rapidly than any part of the world. Moreover, five Asian countries were positioned on the global top-ten fish exporter list in 2000. In details, approximately 9 million fishermen lived in Asia in 1980 which was more than the combined fishers in the rest of the world. In this year, Africa and South America each had around 2 to 3 million people whose profession was fishing. The number of fishermen in North America and Europe was even fewer this year. Next decade, Asian fishermen population increased to over 13 million where these numbers slightly grew in African and American continents. In 2000, around 23 million population in Asia were fishers, almost double than the previous decade, while the rest of the continents had around 8-9 million fishermen in total. European fishers were minorities with fractional fluctuations over the range of half a million to a million, the least in any continent. Tuning to the table data, Thailand, Norway and the USA ranked the top-three fish exporters in 2000. Despite the small population of fishers in Europe, Norway and Denmark held the second and fifth places on the list. Four other Asian countries were listed among the top-ten while no African country was found on the list.