The graph shows the percentage of 15-year-olds with low literacy (reading and writing) levels in four countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features making comparisons where relevant.

The given line chart compares data about the proportion of people who did not have good literacy in 4 various European countries from 2000 to 2009.

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, it was important that the trends of all countries other than Denmark increased over the period of 9 years.

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the diagram, Denmark's inhabitants, the main country that had the highest portion of illiteracy in 2000, scored nearly 18% in the beginning;

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their percentage reduced slightly to 15% in 2009. the fashion of Austria citizens was

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to the prior countries owing to the fact that, at the first time, they hit just under 15%;

thereafter

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, they rose significantly to just over 20% in 2003 ;

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it was roughly constant until 2006. Later it went up to approximately 28%. The graph demonstrates that Swedish touched almost 13% in 2000;

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it grew marginally to roughly 17% in 2009.

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, Ireland's population recorded just over 10% in 2000 after that, it leapt fractionally to the same fraction as Sweden in 2009.