Band 5+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The chart gives employment and education statistics for eight European countries in 2015. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The chart provides numerical data regarding the employment and eduation in eight Europeann countries in 2015.

Looking into the detail, Austria, Norway, United Kindom and Luxembourg shared a similar result. With the exception of Luxembourg, rest of the three countries had over 70% of emploment. The average income showed a significant difference in four mentioned countires comparing to the other countries with Norway having the most with 41,418 Euros which is 13 times more than that in Bulgaria. With the exception of Austra, over 40% of the works in coutries with a higher average income have a college/ university education.

Meanwhile looking into the countires with relatively lower income, namely Bulgaria, Greece, Latvia and Portugal, they had lower emplyment rate with Greece having the lowest rate of only reaching half of the populaion. As well as the employment rate, the propotion recieving college tertiary education was also small with Portugal having the smallest proportion of 22.9% while the rest of the countires were below 30%.

Overall, countries with the higher income, all had higher employment rates and higher education reate than the other countires.