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The bar chart shows the divorce rates in two European countries from 2011 to 2015.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

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The given bar chart provides the information about the percentage of divorces in Finland and Sweden between 2011 and 2015. Overall, Sweden experienced a downward trend, while Finland showed an upward trend throughout the period. Both nation’s divorce rates had some fluctuations. Although Finland initially had a lower rate, it outraced Sweden at the end of the period. Sweden’s divorce rate was about 45% in 2011, being higher than that of Finland’s rate by approximately 8%. Then it rose to almost 50% in 2012. However, the figure here showed a gradual decrease to about 47% in 2013, and continued to decline steadily to the end of the period, reaching around 45 percent in 2014 and hitting a low point of about 37 percent in 2015. Percentage of divorces in Finland was less than 40% in 2011 and it further went down to about 32 percent in 2012. In contrast the figure experienced a steady growth during the next two years. It went up approximately 39% in 2013, then it again increased by around 3% in 2014 and remained steady for the next year, outracing the rate of Sweden.

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