Percentage of UK adolescents following a vegetarian diet

IELTS Academic Writing Task 1 with answer.

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The graph shows the percentage of UK adolescents following a vegetarian diet.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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UK adolescents following a vegetarian diet

vegetarian diet

Sample Answer:
The given line graph depicts the percentage of adolescence in the United Kingdom who followed a vegetarian diet from the year 1960 and also give forecast till 2020. Overall the number of young people in UK who had vegetarian diets decreased after 1980 till the year 2000.

As is presented in the line graph, young people who ate vegetarian meals reached to about 5% of total in 1970 though it was 0% in 1960. This number kept on increasing till 1980 when it reached to over 15% which was highest percentage of adolescent having vegetarian meals in the UK. After than it kept on decreasing with minor fluctuations till the year 2000 when it was only 5%. After 2000, this percentage gradually increased till 2010 at above 10%. It remained steady for the next few years and it is forecasted than that will remain almost same till the year 2020.