IELTS WRITING TASK 1 - PIE CHART

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The pie charts illustrate the proportion of money that households in the UK and New Zealand spent on different categories from 1980 to 2008.

Overall, families in both countries spent the smallest proportion of money on transport in both years. Also, a large percentage of spending was on utility bills and food and drink.

In both countries, utility bills accounted for similar proportions of spending in both years, at around 28%. As for food and drink, the patterns were different. While households in New Zealand spent 7% more on this category than in the UK, the gap increased to 12% in 2008 with families in New Zealand spending nearly twice as much money.

Regarding transport, the proportions of household spending in New Zealand were 2% higher than those in the UK in both 1980 and 2008. By contrast, people in the UK spent more on entertainment than those in New Zealand in both years. Specifically, in 1980 the figure for households in the UK was 27% compared to 18% in New Zealand. In 2008, UK household spending on this category was two times higher than that of their counterpart, at 34% and 17% respectively.