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academic IELTS Writing: Task 1

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Mar 17, 2025 (10 months ago)

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Task description

The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

You should write a minimum of 150 words.

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Source: Cambridge 7

Task answer

The given table compares the percentage of national customer expenditure on different item categories in various countries in 2002. Overall, food/drinks/tobacco achieved the highest percentage in all countries while leisure/education experienced an extremely little of the total budget of their national consumer. Additionally, while Turkey had ranked first in total national consumer expenditure in both 3 main categories, this percentage of Sweden placed at the bottom of the leaderboard. Regarding food/drinks/tobacco trends, Ireland and Turkey are two countries achieved more than a quarter of total national consumer expenditure percentage on this category, at 28.91% and 32.14%, respectively. Other three countries both witness these percentage less than 20% with Spain was the highest followed up by Italy and Sweden, particularly at 18.80%, 16,36% and 15,77% in 2002. Concerning others categories, while 6.43% of total Ireland consumer spent their budget on Clothing/footwear, these numbers were slightly higher in Spain at 6.51%, and in Turkey at 6.63%. Moreover, 9% of Italian buying clothes/footwear in 2002, and nearly half of this percentage, at 5.40%, was witness in Sweden consumer expenditure in the same year. Furthermore, less than one tenth of these countries national expenditure on leisure/education, with Turkey placed on the top at 4.35% and Spain at the bottom at 1.98%. Ultimately, while Italian consumer spent 3.20% of their expenditure on educational purpose and less than Swedish by 0.02%, only 2.21% of total Ireland consumer spent on this category in 2002.

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