Band 4+: the graph below gives information about how much people in the united states and the united kingdom spend on petrol. summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart compares data of the citizens of the USA and UK based on how much of their income is spent on gas.

The situation in these two countries is drastically different. While in the USA poorest drivers spend the most on petrol, in the UK, gas consumption in low-income families is plummeting.

Even though the data varies, the information from both countries share some similarities, as the richest households tend to pay less percentage of their income for fuel and the lines of the two countries meet at the start of the richest category, where the drivers spend about 4% of their earnings on petrol. After this point, the UK line steadily increases before falling and the USA line starts to decline, eventually hitting its lowest mark at 3.5%.

The income group with the highest expenditure on fuel are the mid-level low-income drivers in the USA, spending almost 5.5% of their salaries on the resource. In contrast with that, the UK’s poorest families spend the least on petrol resulting in just 0.5% of their income.