IELTS task 1 practice

The grey solid line belongs to China and the blue refers to the USA. We can learn from the graph that both countries had their highest birth rates happened in 1950,which is 20 percent for China and 15 percent for the USA. Although the two both countries both faced a *decrease in  of birth rate after the peak in 1950, the rate of China dropped more dramatically and hit had its lowest rate in 2000 which is the last year on the graph.

Unlike the sharp downward trend# sloping line of China, the USA had a more gentle decrease and didn’t break the lowest record, so the lowest rate was in 1945.

By looking at the graph, it is likely that the birth rates of China and the USA had similar varied direction. Also, the inflection critical point for both countries in 1945 were was probably because of the fact that World War Two^ had ended.

Hi Brian, 

Just a few suggestions for you:

^ This is an important and historical event. Capitalise World War Two.

# I believe the sloping line you described is actually a descrption of a general tendency of change (e.g upwards or downwards), which is a "trend".

* Some verbs naturally collocate with certain prepositions. We write "decrease in (something)", a "decrease of X%" and ".... decreased by X%".

Hope this helps.
Cheers, Lance