What do the statistics in the passage convey?

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1. The passage gives concrete statistics showing increasing international fragmentation of production: e.g. the share of parts and components in trade rose from $22\%$ to $28\%$ between 1980 and 2000.

2. It also reports that in 2005 trade in "intermediate inputs" accounted for an estimated $56\%$ of trade in goods and $73\%$ in services across rich countries.

3. The passage explicitly links this unbundling of production to a "dramatic acceleration in global trade growth." The cited percentages and their rise are evidence of rapidly expanding trade flows.

4. Therefore the statistics convey that global trade has grown explosively, which matches option (4).

FINAL_ANSWER: d

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