The graph below shows the proportion of the population aged 65 and over between 1940 and 2040 in three different countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given line

graph

illustrates the proportion of the elderly population aged 65 and over in three other countries within a century (1940-2040).

Overall

, the

graph

makes it clear that at the beginning of the given

time

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the percentage of elderly citizens was the lowest in

Japan

while

indicators which depict the

USA

are vice versa. The illustrates show that, in 1940 the number of old people was almost 10 per

cent

in the

USA

and

Sweden

respectively

whereas

it was classified as only 5 per

cent

in

Japan

. By comparing others, there, in

Japan

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there was a slight increase which continued in the next 60 years and after the 2000s it started going up more and more.

That is

the fact that

this

growth will continue growing and in 2040 it will have already been more than 25 per

cent

.

That is

the most sharpened change, which is seen from the

graph

, which leads

Japan

to be at the top of the list. Between the given time

1940

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1940s

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1990s the increases in numbers continued in both (the

USA

and

Sweden

). Throughout the time, percentages of the

USA

left behind

Sweden

by only 2,3 per

cent

. After 2000, numbers in

Sweden

jumped,

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it never took over

Japan

again. The

USA

will have completed the list by just under 25 per

cent

which is the least in the

graph

.