Band 8+: 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 shows the employement and education rates for eight European nations in the year 2015, along with the average annual income for each country.

Overall, the statistics for academic degrees and job occupation are quite homogeneous, with few outliers like Greece and Portugal. On the other hand, the average income is sparsely distributed throughout the countries, with two main clusters comprised of high and low income values.

If we exclude Greece, the median employement rate for the group of nations shown corresponds to around 65 percent, with a short range from approximately 62 to 75%. For this reason Greece stands out with its value of 50.8%. The same thing applies for education, with an average of around 35% and just one outlier represented by the value of 22.9% in Portugal.

When it comes to average income, there are two main groups. Austria, Luxembourg, Norway and the United Kingdom are the high-income countries, with a range that goes from UK’s 20,945€ to Norway’s 41,483€. The low-income group includes all the other nations (Portugal, Latvia, Greece and Bulgaria) with an average income of approximately 5000€.