The given table illustrates the proportion of residents in three chosen countries, who reached the age of 65 and older from 1988 to 2030.
Overall, all of the surveyed countries witnessed an upward trend in percentage of elderly in terms of reality and prediction.
From 1988 to 2000, Canada and Germany shared the same situations via a significant rise by around 5%. To be specific, the rate of people, who aged 65 and above rise from 16.32% to 20.67% and 20.45% to 25.32%, respectively. Meanwhile, the percentage of old people in UK stayed nearly unchanged between 1988 and 2000, which was 14.23 and 14.89, correspondingly.
An predictions of the proportion of over 65 years old people in these countries was made, which still kept the same tendency in the previous period. In other words, there will be a significant rise in the percentage of elderly in Canada with 26.35% after three decades. Germany will also experience a soar up to nearly one third of overall Germany population in 2030. UK will have a significant rise to 20.35 in 2030 after a stable tendency between 1988 and 2000.