Band 8+: 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 depicts the average monthly petrol expenditure expressed as a percentage of average monthly disposable income for the ten most costly nations in this regard.

Overall, the amount for average monthly petrol expenditure in dollars is quite similar for all nations at around 300 dollars, but is the highest for Norway and the lowest for Belgium. In terms of the proportion of mean monthly disposable income expended on petrol, Eritrea and Norway have the highest and lowest percentages respectively.

Eritrea has the greatest proportion of income spent per month on petrol expenses at 61.1%. However, its average monthly petrol expenditures in terms of dollars is comparatively lower at 275. Meanwhile, Sweden has an identical dollar value for petrol expenditure but when expressed as a percentage of its average monthly disposable income figure, it is significantly lesser at 7.70%. Likewise, Britain and Denmark with similar mean monthly petrol expenses’ figures of 276.94 and 278.89 dollars respectively, also have lower percentages of 10.30% and 8.10%.

Whilst Norway has the maximum average monthly expenditure of 319.85 dollars on petrol amongst these nations, owing to its considerably higher disposable average income, its percentage value is markedly low at 7.40%. Similarly, Holland’s expenditure of 288.65 dollars only takes up 10% of the disposable income on average. Conversely, in Turkey the average monthly amount spent on petrol amounts to around one third of the total income available.