Band 6+: 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.

The bar charts provides information about the percentages of divorces in Finland and Sweden between 2011 and 2015.

Overall, Sweden experienced a downward trend, while Finland showed an upward trend throughout the period. Both countries divorces rates had some fluctuations. Although, Finland initially had a lower rate, it outraced Sweden at the end of the period.

Sweden’s divorce rate was about 45% in 2011, being higher than Finland’s rate by approximates 8%. Then, it rose to almost 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 low-point of about 37% in 2015.

Percentage of devorces in Finland was less than 40% in 2011, and it decreased in 2012, when about one third of marriages in Finland ended with a divorce ( as opposed to almost a half in Sweden).Jowever,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.