The table gives data on how many Americans went cruises between 1995 and 2005. The chart illustrates the share of six age categories within the passengers who purchased travel insurance in 1995 and 2005.
Overall, both of the figure of cruise passengers and the proportion of insurance-buyers from six age groups followed an upward trend throughout the decade from 1995 and 2005. Additionally, the percentage of the travellers from the eldest age group remained its insurance-buying dominance among other categories.
Focusing first on the total number of cruise passenger in the US, the figure had an initial starting of approximately 398,000 in the year of 1995. After ten years, this figure just rose roughly nine times, reaching almost 3,570,000 passengers in 2005.
When it comes to the share of insurance-holders within age groups from cruise passengers, nearly a third 73-83 aged passengers had travel insurance in 1995 and this percentage increased to 50% in 2005. However, only 5% of the passengers in the youngest age category had travel insurance in 1995, after which this share doubled in 2005. In other age groups, 5% of 29-39, 10% of 40-50, almost 12% of 51-61, and nearly 28% of 62-72 aged travellers had insurance in the beginning of the decade and finished at 13%, 20%, 25%, and 35% in 2005.