The graph below shows the proportion of the population aged 65 and over between 1940 and 2040 in three different countries.
The graph compares the share of the population over 65
years
old between 1940 and 2040 in Japan
, Sweden
and the USA
.
Overall
, the proportion of people aged 65 and over has gradually increased in Sweden
and the USA
from 1940 to 2020 whereas
it has fluctuated in Japan
. However
, it will rocket between 2020 and 2040 in the three countries.
Looking at the information in more detail, people over 65 years
old represented on average between 5 and 10% of the populations in the three studied countries. In 2020, this
proportion has risen to reach approximately 17% in Sweden
and in the USA
while
it has only increased 3% in Japan
.
In the 2020 to 2040 period, the share of the population aged 65 and over is expected to rise dramatically. In fact, in Japan
, this
percentage will increase from 8% in 2020 to 27% in 2040, which is almost five times more than a hundred years
earlier. In Sweden
and in the USA
, it will jump 8% in the twenty years
period.Submitted by santos_dij on
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