Long description

This is a bar chart diagram with 7 vertical bars representing the financial years 1995 to 2002 inclusive. The vertical axis shows the cost in billions of dollars. For the first 4 years, 1995 to 1998, the annual cost was consistent at 17.4 billion dollars. In 1999 the cost increased to 21.1 billion dollars, in 2000 to 23.7 billion dollars, in 2001 to 24.6 billion dollars and in 2002 to 30.1 billion dollars. The latter includes projected cost into the 2006 financial year. This whole period, 1995 to 2002, was designated as assembly complete. For the financial year 2002, designated as core complete, 23.3 billion dollars was allocated for the core completion by 2004. The total cost in 2002 was 26.1 billion dollars with the balance from 23.3 billion dollars including the cost into the 2006 financial year.