Writing IELTS Task 1 - Bar Chart.

The bar chart below shows the percentage of unemployed graduates, aged 20-24, in one European country over a two-year period.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and making comparisons where relevant.

You should write at least 150 words.

The given bar chart compares one European country from 2008 to 2009 in terms of the unemployment rate among the male and female graduates who are in 20-24-year-old.

Overall, it is clear that male graduates had a higher unemployment rate than female graduates over the time frame. In addition, the highest figures of graduate unemployment by gender were on October 9th in 2009, whereas the lowest figures were recorded in April and July 8th in 2008.

From January to April 2008, a decreasing trend was detected for both men and women. There were 10% of male graduates who were unemployed in January 2008 and dropped slightly to about 7.5% in April and remained constant until July 2008, compared to about 7.5% and just above 5% in January 2008 and April 2008 respectively for women. Furthermore, the bar chart witnessed a sharp rise in October 2008 to above 15% for men; double the previous value and a little over 10% for women.

On the other hand, subsequent months see a slight decline in unemployment rate to about 12% and 11% for men between January 2009 and July 2009 respectively. This was before a remarkable rise to give twice these figures, about 22% in October 2009. Similarly, a rapid decrease was seen in the female data from October 2008 to 6% in April 2009 before increase remarkably ( about 14% ) in October 2009..