Australia Population by Nationality and Area

Population
Migration
Cities

The table and pie chart give information about the population in Australia according to different nationalities and areas.

Annotated response

1 correction note

The given pie chart illustrates the percentages of different nationalities that make up the Australian population, while the table gives information about whether they live in urban or rural areas.

In general, it is evident that the vast majority of Australia’s population is of Australian nationality. Furthermore, most people in this country, irrespective of their nationality, opt to live in cities.

The percentage of the Australian population that are of Australian nationality is 73%, whereas the figures for people of British or other nationalities are significantly lower, at 7% and 14% respectively. Meanwhile, 3% of the population come from New Zealand, while 2% are of Chinese nationality. 1% of Australia’s population comes from the Netherlands.

From the table it can be seen that 80% of Australians choose to reside in cities, along with 89% of the British and 90% of the New Zealanders. , 99% of Chinese live in the city, as do 83% of the Dutch.

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 7.0

The response accurately covers both visuals and provides a clear overview of Australian predominance and urban concentration. The main opportunity is to compare the settlement extremes more explicitly instead of mainly listing urban percentages. A small typographical error also affects the presentation of otherwise generally controlled language.

IELTS criteria

How each score was decided

Task Achievement

7.0

The response accurately reports the nationality shares and urban proportions, with a clear overview of Australian predominance and widespread city residence. More explicit comparisons of the highest and lowest settlement proportions would strengthen the largely descriptive coverage.

Coherence and Cohesion

7.0

Ideas progress logically across a clear introduction, overview, and two body stages with well-managed cohesive devices such as 'whereas' and 'Similarly', with only mechanical listing of figures limiting flexibility.

Lexical Resource

7.0

Vocabulary is sufficiently flexible and precise for the task, using terms like 'vast majority', 'irrespective of', and 'reside', with only a minor typographical slip in 'SImilarly'.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

7.0

Relative clauses, contrastive structures and varied sentence patterns are used accurately and communicate the figures clearly. The collective reference to people within the population does not by itself establish an agreement error.

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