the graph shows the proportion of population age 65 and over between 1940 and 2040 in three different countries USA, Japan and Sweden .
The graph shows the increase in the
aging
population in Change the spelling
ageing
Japan
, Sweden and USA. It indicates that the percentage of elderly people
in all three countries
is expected to increase to almost 25% of the resoective
populations by the year 2040.
In 1940 the proportion of Correct your spelling
respective
people
aged 65 or more stood at only 5% in Japan
, approximately 7% in Sweden and 9% in the USA. However
, while
the figures for the western countries
grew to about 15% in around 1990, the figure for Japan
dipped to only 2.5% for much of this
period, before rising to almost 5% again at the present time .
In spite of some fluctuation in the expected percentages, the proportion f =of older people
will probably continue to increase in the next
two decades in the three countries
. A more dramatic rise is predicted between 2030 and 2040 in Japan
by which time it is thought that the proportion of elderly people
will be similar in the three countries
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