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.