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

The charts below give information on the ages of populations of Yemen and Italy in 2000 and projections for 2050.
The pie charts compare
Yemen
and Italy in terms of the percentages of populations in 3 age groups, namely 0-14, 16-59 and above 60 years old over the 50-year period starting from 2000 to 2050.
Overall
, the population of children undergoes a markable decrease
while
that of the oldest group sees an opposite pattern in both countries.
Additionally
, Italy is anticipated to age in the next 50 years. In 2000, the rate of 0 to 14 aged people in
Yemen
was responsible for 50,1%, which was about 36% higher than that of Italy. After that, both of them are forecasted to decrease to 37% and 11,5% respectively in 2050.
By contrast
, the figures for the old stood at 3,6% in
Yemen
and 24,1% in Italy in 2000, before being expected increase in
Yemen
and Italy, with respective numbers being 5,7% and 42,3%.
On the other hand
, 61,6% of 15 and 59-year-olds came from Italy, hitting the highest point in the charts, compared to 46,3% of the level of
Yemen
in 2000. After 50 years, there will be a dramatic decrease to 46,2% in the data of
this
group in Italy, whilst
Yemen
is expected to increase to 57,3% in their percentages.
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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
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