IELTS WRITING TASK 1 – The graph below shows the number of Asian elephants between 1997 and 2004.

The line graph illustrates the quantity of Asian elephants in ten different countries over a period of 10 years starting from 2010.

It is clear that the number of Asian elephants in all nations, except for Cambodia and Laos, decreased over the period shown. Also, while India had the largest number of Asian elephants in 2000, the same was true for Myanmar in 2010.

As can be seen from the graph, in 2000, approximately 10 thousand elephants lived in India which was the largest among the given countries. Myanmar was the second largest country for elephants inhabit with about 5,500 elephants. This was followed by Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, China with 1000 elephants while Malaysia, Sri Lanka Thailand had the noticeably higher quantities of roundly 3000 elephants. The least number of elephants went on China with nearly 500 elephants in the year 2000.

After 10 years, in 2010, the number of elephants in India fell to 7500 in 2004 while this number decreased to 4800 in Myanmar and only to 1200 in Thailand. Cambodia was the only country where the total number of elephants increased while the figure for China was only less than 500 elephants in this year.

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