Some people say that schools should spend more money on computers, others say that more money should be spent on teachers' wages. Discuss both views and state your opinion.

The bar chart illustrates the proportion of
age
of
people
in Iceland with five
categories
(0-14
years
old, 15-24
years
old, 25-54
years
old, 55-64
years
old, and 65 and over) for a decade from 1990 to 2020. Overall, the percentage of
people
within the
age
of 25-54
have
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increased
since
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1990 to 2020.
On the other hand
with
category
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of 15-24
years
old and 55-64
years
old experience
the
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slight decrease over time. While the other
age
categories
have been
fluctuate
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. According to the data given, the category of adult (25-54
years
old) proportion has been steadily increased from around 30% in 1990 to almost 50% in 2020.
On the contrary
, the percentage of young
people
(15-24
years
old) experience a slight fall
since
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1990 to 2020 at around
10
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a 10
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% decrease for the past 4 decades. Whereas, the teenager (category of 0-14
years
old) has
slight
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a slight
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decrease over time from around 20% to less than 20%. In terms of other
age
categories
, both older
people
(65
years
old and over) and senior
people
(55-64
years
old) proportion have
been fluctuated
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with a tendency of slight fall. Both of those two
categories
has been fluctuate between 10-15%
over
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time
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the time
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period given.
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