The given chart illustrates population growth in Japan from the past, present and future, and the table shows predictions about the population and percentage of people aged 65 years or over from 1950 to 2055.
Overall, both chart and table predicted increases in the number of the population even though a slight decrease will happen. Furthermore, the population and percentage of people aged 65 years or over are expected to increase in the future.
According to the line chart, there was an increase in the number of population in Japan from 1950 with 84.1 million to 2005 with 127.8 million. This means that in a period of 55 years, Japan’s population increased to 43.7 million people. However, it is predicted that there will be a decline every 5 years and will drop to 89.9 million people in 2055.
On the other hand, the table shows the population of aged 65 and the percentage of total people aged 65 or over increased dramatically in 2005 to 25.7 million and 20.0 percent. Furthermore, this number is expected to continue to increase until 2055 to around 36.6 million and 41.0 percent, respectively.