The graph below shows the proportion of the population aged 65 and over between 1940 and 2040 in three different countries.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The presented line graph gives information about the percentage of the population that is more than 65-year-old in Japan, Sweden and USA from 1940 to 2040, a period of over 100 years.
Overall, it can be vividly observed that the levels of ageing population for these three nations are foreseen to grow, even though at a different pace, till 2040.
A glance at the graph reveals that in 1940, the proportion of the golden aged was less than 10% in the three countries. Between 1960 to 1980, the USA and Sweden’s ageing population rose by roughly 5 %, while this figure for Japan went down slightly to reach around 3%. However, after 1990, Japanese’ ageing population continued to go up and it is projected to increase steeply after 2030. In 2040, the greying population in Japan will have reached more than one-quarter of the total population. In contrast, the number of senior citizens in the USA remained stable at around 15% until 2020. At the end of the period, the ratio of elderly population in the USA and Sweden will show a similar pattern and reach at about 25 %.
