The two pie charts below show the marital status of Australia’s and Canada’s populations for 1999 and 2000 respectively. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below.

Given are two pie chart comparing the rates of different matrimonial status in total population of Australia (1999) and Canada (2000). From the information supplied, it is evident that the married and single people accounted for the largest proportion in both countries. As for legal spousal relationship, the figure for Australia was marginally ahead of Canada', 53% for the former and 41% for the latter. While 46% of Canada's inhabitants was single, the number for Australia was only 29%. Interestingly, there were more people in Canada opting to be single than in Australia. To turn to the widowed one, for Australia it was 7%, whereas for Canada the figure was slightly greater, at 5%. There was less marked difference between the percentage of the divorced and the unofficially divorced in both countries as the deviation was just 1%. Noticeably, 1% of Australia' population was same-sex married couple, while in Canada there was nos official record for this category of marital status.