IELTS Writing Task 1 #189
Tips for IELTS Writing Task 1
The report should have:
- an introduction that includes 2 or 3 main features of the chart.
- two paragraphs that provide details of the main features mentioned in the introduction. (The main features are the most important pieces of information on the chart.)
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
The graph gives information about the age of the population of Iceland between 1990 and 2020.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
Model answer
The bar chart compares the different ages of people living in Iceland between 1990 and 2020.
All in all, the size of the 25-54 age group increased the most over the period while the size of the two younger age groups decreased a little bit. The number of people in the two older age groups stayed about the same.
The 25-54 age group grew from approximately a third of the population in 1990 to nearly half of the population in 2020.
The older two age groups did not increase or decrease much. The size of the 65 and over age group remained at about 13%, whereas the size of the 55 -64 age group only fell from about 14% to about 10% of the population.
By contrast, the 0-14 age group fell from just over 25% in 1990 to just under 20% in 2020. Similarly, the 15-24 age group dropped from just over 20% of the population in 1990 to just under 10% of the population in 2020.
(168 words)