Band 6+: The chart shows a range of goods and services bought last year by internet shoppers in three different countries, namely Australia, Canada and the UK. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart reveals the amount of items purchased online by Australia, Canada, and the UK based on different categories of goods and service in the span of one year.

Overall, Australia and Canada shares the same amount of spending in certain goods while the UK has higher expenses in almost every type of product compare to others.

The UK highest purchase comes from music at an amount of approximately 65%, with books coming in second nearly the same amount as music. Australia expenses are highest on both computer equipment and books (43%). Canada’s main contributor of online good comes from computer equipment, about 45%. Books are the next major item after computer equipment, having the same percentage of Australia’s highest spendings. Meanwhile for their lowest spending, Australia, Canada, and the UK shares the same number of 2% on toys, food and drink, and financial services respectively.

The UK other purchases are computer equipment (50%), DvDs/videos (38%), food and drink (25%), and toys (19%). Australia DvDs/videos are almost 1.5 times less than UK’s (22%). Financial services remains the highest among the three, almost 20%. Canada is first in toys (20%) second in financial services (17%), third in dvds/videos (18%). In terms of music, Australia is next after UK, around 38% with Canada being slightly smaller (36%).