BAND 6.5 IELTS ESSAY SAMPLE: ANALYSIS OF ICELAND'S POPULATION AGE DATA FROM 1990 TO 2020

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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.

Essay Sample

The given bar chart illustrates the percentages of different ages of the residents of Iceland from 1990 to 2020.
Overall, the people in the age 25-54 had an upward trend, while the other groups from varied ages had some fluctuations during the period.
In 1990, nearly a third of the total of the population aged from 24-54 and this figure reached its peak to just under half of the total in 2020. by contrast, the percentage of the people aged 0-14 stood at just under 30% in 1990 and experienced a marked decline to roughly 10 % in 2020.
The young group of 15-24, which comprised close to a fifth of the total population in Iceland in 1990, plunged to approximately 8% in 2020. In 1990, the 55-64 age group and 65 and over were about 10% and 12%, respectively. The former fell modestly to 10% and the latter remained unchanged in 2020.