The bar chart illustrates the proportion of British people in five age groups donating charity between 1990 and 2010.
Overall, while the involvement rate in charity donation of British people aged from 51 and plus increased over the given period, the opposite was true for other age cohorts. Furthermore, more old respondents surveyed donated than young ones in 1990 and 2010.
In 1990, 35% of people between 51 and 65 engaged in charity donation, about 3% higher than that of those aged 65 and over. After 20 years, both of these age groups observed a moderate rise to roughly 40% and 35%, becoming the leading and second largest figure in that year, respectively.
Regarding other age brackets, approximately 17% of people at the age 18 to 25 contributed money to charity in the first examined year, before decreasing sharply to nearly 7% in 2010, remaining the lowest figure throughout the given time-frame. Over the same period, the contribution of the age groups of 26 to 35 and 36 to 50 was over 30% and 40% in respective order, which later both recorded an increase by 7% by period-end.
