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Some students prefer to take a gap year between high school and university, to work or to travel. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

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 charts compare the percentages of
people
 belonging to three different age groups in
Yemen
 and Italy between 2000 and 2050. Overall, the percentage of
people
 between 15 and 59 in
Yemen
 is projected to increase significantly by 2050 while that of
people
 over 60 in Italy will rise considerably. Regarding the population of
Yemen
, the percentage of
people
 who were aged between 0 and 14 in
Yemen
 was 50,1% in the
first
 year and,
this
 figure is expected to tremendously fall to 37% by 2050.
By contrast
, the proportion of
people
 aged 15-59 was 46,3% in 2000 and is predicted to soar to over
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half after 50 years. A slight rise of 2% is projected in the ratio of the elderly in
Yemen
 over the same
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period. In terms of the Italian population, the percentage of young Italians was 14,3% in 2000,
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 50 years, is predicted to go down to 11,3% by 2050. A substantial fall of 15% is expected in the proportion of
people
 aged between 15 and 59 in
Yemen
.
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