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 pie charts illustrate how many
people
lived in
Yemen
and Italy in 2000 and its prediction in 2050, categorised by their age; 0 - 14, 15 - 59, and over 60 years old.
Overall
, young
people
who live in
Yemen
and Italy are predicted to decrease
while
the elderly are projected to increase. More than half (50.1%) of
people
who lived in
Yemen
in 2000 were children, but it is forecasted to go down by 37.0% in 2050.
In contrast
, in 2000, the elderly
people
were a minority, with only 3.6%, but it is shown to have a slight growth to 5.7% by the
year
2050. It should be emphasised that in the first
year
, 46.3% of
Yemen
's population were grownups and it is estimated to dominate the percentage
at the end
with 57.3%. In 2000, Italians were mostly adults (61.6%);
however
,
this
is expected to lessen and reach 46.2% by 2050, almost the same as the older adults percentage in the same
year
(42.3%), which is predicted to roughly double from the first
year
(24.1%). In the case of kids in Italy, they were the lowest proportion of Italians with 14.3% in 2000 and forecasted to decline by 11.5% in 2050.
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  • 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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