The chart below shows figures for attendances at hospital emergency care departments in Northern Ireland by age group in December 2016 and December 2017. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart below shows figures for attendances at hospital emergency care departments in Northern Ireland by age group in December 2016 and December 2017. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The bar chart compares the
number
of
visits
made by
people
across six
age
groups to hospital
emergency
care
departments in Northern Ireland in
December
2016 and 2017. It is evident that there was a slight increase in the rate of hospital
emergency
care
visits
across all six
age
categories from
December
2016 to
December
2017. In both months, elderly
people
and young children accounted for the highest
number
of
visits
to hospital
emergency
care
departments. In
December
2016 and 2017, adults over 75 years old had the highest
number
of hospital
emergency
visits
, with roughly 65
attendances
per 1,000
people
in 2016 and 70
attendances
per 1,000 in 2017.
Following
this
group were children under 5 years of
age
, with approximately 52
attendances
per 1,000 in
December
2016 and 54
attendances
per 1,000 in 2017. The remaining
age
groups—5 to 15, 16 to 44, 45 to 64, and 65 to 74—made fewer trips to hospital
emergency
care
departments, with
attendances
all under 40 per 1,000
people
in both
December
2016 and 2017. Among these, individuals aged 5 to 15 years old had the lowest
number
of
visits
, with just over 20 per 1,000 in both months.
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