Band 4+: 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 diagram illustrates the top ten costly countries for gas in the world interms of their income and expenditure.

Overall, it can be seen that most of the counties are in Europe. The money spent in a month is close for all countries with significant difference in the percentage spent from their income.

Norway, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium have high mean income per month of 4329, 2880, 3430, 3548 and 3125$ respectively. These countries spent less than 10 percent or less, 7.4%, 10%, 8.1%, 7.7% and 8.7% respectively, of their average monthly income for gas. The countries namely turkey, Italy and Greece with monthly income of 924, 1832 and 1112$ spend 34.2%, 15.5% and 25.4% of the income on gas, which is higher than among other high income countries. Britain’s mean monthly income is 2681 $ and they spend 10.3% of it for gas in a month, which is comparable to other high income countries.

Eritrea, which has average monthly income of 450$, spent 61.1% of it on petrol making it the most extensive county interms of petrol price and income.

To conclude Eritrea is the most expensive and Norway is the cheapest when seen interms of income percentage, however, Belgium spend the lowest and Norway spend the sum of money monthly on petrol.