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The bar chart shows the percentage of divorces in Finland and Sweden from 2011 to 2015. Sweden's divorce rate started at 45% in 2011 and trended downward, reaching a low of 37% in 2015. Finland began with a lower divorce rate than Sweden in 2011 but then trended upward, surpassing Sweden's rate by 2015 with about 42% of marriages ending in divorce. Both countries experienced some fluctuations in their divorce rates over the period analyzed.

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Task 1 Sample

The bar chart shows the percentage of divorces in Finland and Sweden from 2011 to 2015. Sweden's divorce rate started at 45% in 2011 and trended downward, reaching a low of 37% in 2015. Finland began with a lower divorce rate than Sweden in 2011 but then trended upward, surpassing Sweden's rate by 2015 with about 42% of marriages ending in divorce. Both countries experienced some fluctuations in their divorce rates over the period analyzed.

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Introduction

The bar chart provides information about the percentages of divorces in


Finland and Sweden between 2011 and 2015.

Overall
Overall, Sweden experienced a downward trend, while/although/whereas
Finland showed an upward trend throughout the period. Both countries’
divorce rates had some fluctuations. Although Finland initially had a lower
rate, it outraced/surpassed/exceed Sweden at the end of the period.

Body 1

Sweden’s divorce rate was about 45% in 2011, being higher than Finland’s rate
by approximately 8%. Then, it rose to almost fifty percent in 2012.
However, the figure showed a gradual decrease to about 47% in 2013, and
continued to decline steadily to the end of the period, reaching around 45% in
2014 and hitting a low-point of about 37% in 2015.   
Body 2

Percentage of divorces in Finland was less than 40% in 2011, and it decreased
in 2012, when about one third of marriages in Finland ended with a divorce
(as opposed to almost a half in Sweden). However, the figure experienced a
steady growth during the next two years. It rose to approximately 39% in
2013, then increased by around 3% in 2014, and remained steady for the
next year, outracing/surpass/outweigh the rate of Sweden.

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