Sample Ielts Academic Writing Task 1 - Levels of participation in education and science in developing and industrialized countries in 1980 and 1990

The Charts below show the levels of participation in education and science in developing and industrialized countries in 1980 and 1990.

Write a report for a university professor describing the information shown below

Ielts Writing Task Academic 1-  Graphs 

The given charts elucidate dissimilarity between elite and poor nations in terms of education and science and technology development.

Quite strikingly, there is a big difference between  developed and under-developed  countries, and the gap actually widened.

In case of schooling, in 1980s, the number of years spent at schools was almost 8.5 years, while in poor nations it was two years. In the next decade, the length of schooling in rich countries rose by another two years, while in developing nations there was a negligible rise,

Similarly, the number technicians and scientists rose significantly in the quoted period in rich countries, from just above  40 to approximately 70 per thousand, but in under-developed nations, there was a small rise in numbers from 10 to 18 per thousand.

However, investments in research and development, the trends were quite dissimilar, as  even though the participation in  R&D rose by two-folds in rich countries, from 150 to 300 billion, in poor countries there was a drop from 50 to 25 billion.