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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 4th May
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The percentage of workers in agriculture, manufacturing and services in 7 European countries in 2014.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The table illustrates the proportion of the workforce in three different sectors of an economy in 7 countries of Europe.
Overall, services sector employed the highest percentage of workers in each country, while the agriculture sector was the least common, except in Romania.
Service-related workers in the UK accounted for over 80% of the entire economy, which was also the highest figure in the table. Following the UK were Greece, France, and Germany at 80.6%, 78.9% and 73.8% respectively. Interestingly, Romania, which had the lowest percentage of service workers (43.9%) was the country that occupied the highest proportion in agriculture at 28.2%, while that of the UK was the lowest in this sector and in the table, at 1.3%. This figure of Romania roughly doubled the second highest proportion in agriculture, at 12.1% in Ukraine. The percentages of other countries were lower than 3.5%
The UK also had the lowest proportion in manufacturing, at 15.2%. This was less than a half of the highest percentage in this sector, at 37.4% in the Czech Republic. Ukraine and Romania took up for the second and third place in manufacturing, at 29 and 27.9%. Those for other countries were less than one fifth.
