The pie charts illustrate the ages of visitors who came from the UK to Spain over a 20-year period, from 1983 to 2003.
Overall, it is obvious that there were significant changes in the proportions of different age groups and an upward trend in the UK visitors in the 0-24 years and over 55 years groups, while the opposite was true for the 25-54 years age group during the period.
In 1983, the largest age group was 34-54 years, which accounted for half of the total visitors traveling to Spain. Besides that, the 25-34 years age group took up a smaller share than the largest proportion, which were 20% and 50%, respectively. The third group was the over 55 years group, which consisted of nearly 16 percent. The visitors in the 0-15 years group accounted for a slightly larger proportion than the 16-24 years group, which were 10% and 4%, respectively.
In 2003, there was a moderate decrease to 35% in the 34-54 years visitors. In addition, the 25-34 years age group witnessed a slight decline of about 10%, while the opposite was true for the 0-24 years and over 55 years groups, which increased noticeably. Especially, there was considerable growth to 26 percent in the oldest group in 2003. The visitors in the 16-24 years group accounted for a bigger proportion than the 0-15 years group, which were 15% and 12%, respectively.