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Introduction main content of graph(s)

Details trends differences stages locations

Brief Overview main features

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Understand graph(s)
Determine tense
Select main features
Arrange structure

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.


Describe main content of the graph

Introduction
The graph below shows the proportion of the population aged 65 and over
between 1940 and 2040 in three different countries.

The graph/line chart describes percentage of the elderly people ageing

population from 1940 to 2040 in Japan,Sweden and USA.

Determine tense

Simple Past tense

Simple Future tense
Present

Select main features

General Trend: Increase

Arrange structure

1.introduction
2.Sweden & USA (Details)
3.Japan (Details)
4.Overview

Details trends

Describe trends
sharp,
rise,increase,climb,grow(growth) marked, significant,
dramatic (dramatically)
decrease,drop,fall,decline
level off,stabilize(stabilization) slight,
moderate, gradual,
fluctuate(fluctuation) steady (steadily)

Details trends 1.
The percentage of elderly people
increased sharply from 5% in 1990 to
How to describe trends in sentences
21% in 2000.
The percentage of elderly people

25%
2.
20%

15%
The period between 1990 and 2000
10% witnessed/saw/experienced a sharp
5%
increase in the percentage of elderly
people from 5% to 21%.
0%
1990 2000

Details trends

How to describe trends in sentences

3. There be
The percentage of elderly people
There was a sharp increase in the
25%

20%
percentage of elderly people from
15% 5% in 1990 to 21% in 2000.
10%

5%

0%
1990 2000

Details trends
As far as Japan is concerned.There was
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a slight / steady decline in the percentage
of ageing population from 5% in 1940 to
approximately 3% in 1960, which was
followed by stabilization until 1990. After
that, the proportion increased and is
expected to rise sharply to 25% in 2030,
with a less drastic climb to 27% in 2040.

Details trends
From 1940 to 1990, the proportions of ageing
Body Paragraphs population in the USA and Sweden were
similar and followed the same trend. In 1940,
the figures stood at 9% in the USA and 7% in
Sweden, and grew to 15% and 14%
respectively in 1980, before falling to 14% and
13% each in 1990. After leveling off, the
percentage of elderly people in the USA is
predicted to climb to about 23% in 2040.
However, in Sweden, in spite of some
fluctuation, there will be increasingly more
people aged 65 and over until 2040.

Overview

Obviously, the percentage of elderly people in all three countries is

expected to increase to almost 25% by the year 2040.

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