The charts below give information on the ages of the populations of Yemen and Italy in 2000 and projections for 2050. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Information about the population of Yemen and Italy in the

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2050 in percentages is presented by four pie charts.

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, it is most noticeable that in both the statistics for the

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two-thousand and the projection for fifty years in the future less than six per cent of the citizens will be aged sixty or above.

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, almost a quarter of Italy's people were in the mentioned

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number is expected to increase to over 40% in the following half of a century. In the

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2000 half of Yemen's population is at the

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of fourteen or less and over 46% is between the ages of fifteen and fifty-nine,

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results in fact that below 4% of the people living there are 60 or over.

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, an increase in the numbers for

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group is expected reaching almost 6%. The same is predicted for the middle-aged to reach over 57% and for the youngest to drop to only 37%.

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, in ,Italy over 60% of its citizens were of working

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and less than 15% were below the

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of 14. In the

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future it is expected that children will represent even a smaller portion of the nation at slightly over 11%.

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, the other two

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groups will almost be equal at close to 42% for the eldest and around 46% for the middle-aged.