14/9/19: The line graph below shows the number of international conferences in three cities.

You should spend 20 minutes on this task.

Write at least 150 words.

The given line chart illustrates data about how many international conferences took place in three
cities between 1965 and 2010.

Overall, there were significantly downward trends in both cities A and B, while the figure of city
C experienced a dramatic increase over the period in question.
Looking at the details, the trend was similar in both city A and B. The data started at 35 and 32
conferences in 1965 respectively. After that, while conferences in city A experienced a sharp fall
to 20 in 1975 before going up substantially by 10% in the next decade, the figure of city B just
decreased slightly to 27 and increased slightly by 1% in 1975 at the same time. Over the next 20
years, the data of both cities fluctuated slightly between about 26 and 30. Finally, while the
figure in city A dropped dramatically to 20 in 2005, the figure of city B just fell slightly to 25.

By contrast, the number of international conferences in city C went in the opposite direction.
Starting at 0 conference in 1965, the data experienced a dramatic increase to about 28 in 1995,
before fluctuating to 30 at the end of the period.