Band 5+: The figure shows the result of a survey of 1000 adolescents in five different countries. The participants were asked at what age they believe certain rights and responsibilities should be granted to young people. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features.

The bar chart given illustrates the outcome of an questionnaire of 1000 teenagers in various regions: USA, UK, Mexico, Japan, and Egypt. The participants were questioned when considered responsibilities and rights should be given to adolescents .

In term of rights, adolescent in USA and UK choose to grant marriage when they turn to 18 years old, while teenagers from Egypt and Mexico choose the age of 16. Interestingly, Japanese decided to get married at 22 years old. Mexican as UK adolescents believed they should be granted to vote at 16, while other varied between 18 to 20 years old.

In term of responsibility, particularly criminal activities, both UK teenagers and Mexican believed that youth should be punished in the age of 15, whereas American believed it should be in the age of 12. Egyptian and Japanese decided that punishment should be applied in the age 14 and 18 respectively.

Overall, youth beliefs various depends on regions and traditions and rarely when two regions concurred the same lows.