The charts below give information on the ages of the populations of Yemen and Italy in 2000 and projections for 2050.

The charts below give information on the ages of the populations of Yemen and Italy in 2000 and projections for 2050.
The charts illustrate the
proportion
of
people
of different ages in 2000 in two countries:
Yemen
and Italy and
also
forecast the data for the
year
2050.
While
Yemen
will see the domination of 0-
14
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14-year-olds
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year
olds in their
population
overtaken by 15-
59
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59-year-olds
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year
olds in 2050, the dominant
population
in Italy, 15-
59 years olds
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59-year-olds
, remains the same over the period, albeit at a far lower percentage by 2050. As is presented in the charts, the
children
were more than half of the total
population
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Yemen
in 2000. Aged
people
in
this
year
were less than 4% of the total
population
in
Yemen
.
Finally
,
people
from 15 to 59 years old were the remaining 46% of the total
population
. In summary,
Yemen
had more
children
and very few old
people
in the
year
2000. Now the projection shows that in 2050, the
proportion
of
children
in
Yemen
will decrease to 37%
while
the number of old
people
will increase.
People
from the 15 to 59 age group would be the dominating
proportion
making up above 57% of the total
people
of the country. Meanwhile, In Italy, adults accounted for the highest 61.6% of the total citizens in 2000, followed by the elderly
people
percentage which came in second place, 24.1% and toddlers and
children
counted only 14.3%. In 2050, it is forecasted that the adult
population
will still be the highest
proportion
, 46.2% and the number of seniors will be about 42.3%, almost twice higher than in 2000.
On the other hand
, the percentage of
children
will decline to only 11.5%.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • age demographics
  • age structure
  • population distribution
  • youthful population
  • ageing population
  • life expectancy
  • birth rate
  • demographic shift
  • population projection
  • median age
  • dependents
  • working-age population
  • elderly dependents
  • geriatric
  • fertility rate
  • migration
  • demographic trends
  • baby boomers
  • demographic dividend
  • population pyramid
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