Band 6+: WRITING TASK 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The table below shows the world's ten most expensive countries for petrol along with other financial information. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The table shows the ten countries with the highest fuel costs and provides a breakdown of average monthly earnings and expenditure on petrol.

Of the ten countries, those in northern Europe have the highest income with Norwegians and the Swedish earning the most. In contrast, there are only two non European countries on the table, Turkey and Eritrea, and they have the lowest income with people in Eritrea earning on average approximately a tenth that of those in Norway, the highest at $4329.07.

It is also interesting to note that there is very little variation in the amount of money spent on petrol and that this does not seem to correlate to location or income. For example, expendature in Norway and Turkey is very similar ($319.85 and $315.96 respectively) and in Sweden and Eritrea it is identical at $275.

In summary, there is a huge disparity in income in the listed countries but very little difference in how much of this is spent on petrol. This means that there is a huge discrepancy in the percentage of income spent on petrol with Norway spending 7.4% of their income on fuel compared with over sixty percent in Eritrea.’ ‘