There’s a chart describes how many presents of different age people’s amount between age 65 to more than age 85 from 1900 to 2000. It has 3 different age groups of 65 to 74, 75 to 84 and more than 85 for describing.
As an overview, it is noticeable that there are more old people than before. It seems that people have long years for their lives. It also shows us a bad information that there are older people, but less younger people and it might be made more jobs that need physical strength stop working or take more times by lower younger people for doing that.
As clearly shown in the chart, the percentage of the group of 65 to 74 years old and the group of 74 to 84 years old had been rising up a lot, and a little bit of the group of more than age 85. The 65 to 74 group’s percentage was 2.9% in 1900 before, but 6.5% in 2000. The age 74 to 84 group was 1% in 1990 and year 2000 was 4.4%. The percentage of the group of more than 85 years old also rose up from 0.2% to 1.5%.
There was a small slipping down of the percentage of age from 65 to 74 in 1990 to 2000, but rose up of the percentage of group age 75 to 84. The percentage of age 65 to 74 was 7.3% in 1990 and 6.5% in 2000. The percentage of age 75 to 84 was 4% in 1990, but 4.4% in the year of 2000