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The bar chart shows the divorce rates in two European countries from 2011 to 2015.

The bar chart shows the divorce rates in two European countries from 2011 to 2015.
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The bar chart gives 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
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 countries, divorce rates had some fluctuations.
Although
Finland
initially
 had
most
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 mediocre amount, it outraged
Sweden
at the end
 of the period.
Sweden
's detachment rate was about 45% in 2011,
being
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higher than
Finland
's rate by approximately 81%.
Then
, it rose by almost fifty
percent
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 in 2012.
However
, the figure showed a gradual dive to about 47% in 2014
,
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 and continued to decline steadily to the end of the period, reaching around 45% in 2015 and hitting the nadir of about 37% in 2015.
Percentage
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 of breakups in
Finland
were
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 less than 40% in 2011, and it decreased in 2012
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 when about
one
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third
 of marriages in
Finland
 ended with a divorce at almost
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half in
Sweden
.
However
, the figure experienced steady growth during the
next
 two years. It rose approximately 39% in 2013,
then
 surged by around 3% in 2014, and remained constant for the
next
 year, attracting the rate of
Sweden
.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words finland, sweden with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "figure" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "showed" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "trend" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "approximately" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "almost" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 5 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 2 times.
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