Band 7+: 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 table illustrates rates of employment, level of education, and income in a typical year for eight countries in Europe in the year 2015. Units are measured in Euros and percentages.

Overall, Norway, Luxembourg, Austria, and the UK were the highest-income countries, and all of them except for Austria had the largest proportion of citizens with high education. On the other hand, Bulgaria, Latvia, Greece, and Portugal were ranked as the lowest-income countries, while also falling behind regarding the rate of higher education.

Norway was ranked the first interim of both average wages (41.483 Euros) and rates of employment (74.8%). Luxembourg was ranked second, with a typical early income of more than 34 thousand Euros and 66% working citizens. Austria and the UK followed with relatively close figures to each other. It is also worth noting that all rich countries except for Austria had more than 40% of their population with university-level education.

People from Bulgaria, Latvia, Greece, and Portugal had the lowest salaries all less than 10.000 Euros. However, all of these nations had a working force of more than 60% of the population, except Greece which showed higher levels of unemployment, hovering around 50%.