IELTS Writing Task 1 — International Students Tables

The chart illustrates the data of students from three different countries that study in Canada and the USA in a year of 2002 and 2003.

Overall, the USA have the larger amount of international students through out the given years. While Canada experience a upward trend in the number of students moving into the country for studying purpose.

In Canada, China have the largest amount of students in both 2002 and 2003 respectively 5,400 and 7,850. Right after is the USA with 5,000 in 2002 and increase to 5,450 students which is about 9%. Last one is India in the year 2002 have about 2,100 learners and rose 17 percent to 2,835 in the next year.

The other country which is the USA have a noticeable larger number in foreign students to compare with Canada. India stood at first place with approximately 200,000 exchange students but have decline 9 percent of learners in the subsequence year and remains only about 182,000. Overseas that pursuing academic goals that have origin country of China have only half of the Indian learners in the year 2002 and saw a growth in the next year to about 6,600 more students. Canada have the least learners at only 31,000 but have the most noticeable change in 2003 to approximately 33,200 in 2003.

The two tables compare the numbers of international students from selected countries who studied in Canada and the United States in 2002 and 2003, together with the total number in each host country.

Overall, the United States hosted far more international students than Canada in both years, while Canada's total rose much faster, by 17% compared with only 2% in the USA. Among the listed groups, Chinese students were the largest group in Canada, whereas Indian students were the largest in the USA despite a decline.

In Canada, the number of Chinese students increased from 5,400 to 7,850, a rise of 45%. Students from the USA grew from 5,000 to 5,450, while the Indian figure climbed by 35%, from 2,100 to 2,835. Canada's total increased from 59,870 to 70,004.

In the USA, Indian enrolment fell by 9%, from 200,000 to 182,000. By contrast, Chinese student numbers rose from 110,000 to 116,600, and Canadian students increased from 31,000 to 33,170. Overall enrolment in the USA edged up from 581,600 to 592,230.