Band 6+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The chart below gives information about the high-speed internet connection of households in five countries in 2001 and 2002. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The bar chart illustrates how households across five different nations used the high-speed internet connection in 2001 and 2002. Overall, people in all five countries had used more Internet connection throughout the period and South Korea and the USA always had the most connections among the five nations.

Regarding the highest number of the high-speed Internet connection in both years, South Korea started at 122 connections per 1000 people in 2001, before increasing slightly to 134.4 in 2002. Witnessing the same pattern, the figure for the USA’s high-speed connections in 2001 was 93, which was 29 connections less than that for South Korea. By 2002, it had jumped to 252.1 and surpassed South Korea, which was only half of the USA in the same year.

As for the three remaining nations, their number of connections were around 3% in 2001. While Germany and Switzerland witnessed a modest growth to 5.616 and 7.92, respectively in 2002, a dramatic rise to 10.89 was recorded in the number of Britain’s connections. Although having increased over the period, the figures for Germany, Switzerland, and Britain were still significant less than those for South Korea and the USA.