The chart below shows the total number of Olympic medals won by twelve different countries.
Write a report for a university, lecturer describing the information shown below.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The bar chart gives information and compares twelve nations in terms of the total quantities of
Olympic medals they achieved.
Overall, USA saw the highest number of medals, whereas Japan won the least quantity of
medals. It is also noticeable that the rest of countries occupied relatively same numbers of
medals in this Olympic event.
While USA attained a large number of units, with more than 2,250 medals in total, Japan
ranked the least with only 400 units. Soviet Union ran second just after America, at 1000
medals that included over 400 gold prizes, compared to approximately 150 units of UK.
Germany, Italy, Sweden and Hungary obtained almost similar numbers of medals, with around
500 units for each country. There were higher quantities of medals for UK and France, which
reached over 600 units. China, East Germany and Australia’s athletes brought back to their
homelands roughly 400 medals each.
