Writing Warm-up – Part 2

IELTS bar chart Question

The bar chart shows the divorce rates in two European countries from 2011 to 2015

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant

. fill in the gaps in this answer with appropriate words

The …………… provides ……………  about the percentages of divorces in Finland and Sweden between 2011 and 2015

, O ……………  Sweden experienced a downward trend, while Finland showed an ……………  trend throughout the period. Both countries’ divorce rates had some fluctuations. Although Finland initially had a lower rate, it ……………  Sweden at the end of the period

Sweden’s divorce rate was about 45% in 2011, being higher than Finland’s rate by approximately 8%. Then, it rose to …………… fifty percent in 2012. However, the figure showed a gradual decrease to about 47% in 2013, and continued to decline steadily to the end of the period, reaching around 45% in 2014 and hitting a …………… of about 37% in 2015

Percentage of divorces in Finland was ……………  than 40% in 2011, and it decreased in 2012, when about one third of marriages in Finland ended with a divorce (as …………… to almost a half in Sweden). However, the figure experienced a steady growth during the next two years. It rose to approximately 39% in 2013, then increased by around 3% in 2014, and remained steady for the next year, outracing the rate of Sweden

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bar chart
information
Overall
Upward
Outraced
Almost
low-point
less
opposed