The charts below give information on the ages of the populations of Yemen and Italy in 2000 and projections for 2050. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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The charts below give information on the ages of the populations of Yemen and Italy in 2000 and projections for 2050.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts illustrate the age levels of citizens living in two countries, Yemen and Italy, in 2000 and also show forecasts for 2050 by grouping people into three age groups: 0-14, 15-59 and over 60 years.

Looking at the first two charts of Yemen, It is clear that though the first group of 0-14 year olds took the largest portion of the whole population, in numbers 50.1% in 2000, the number of young generation will significantly decrease to 37% in 2050. The second group of people from 15 to 59 ages took 46.3% of citizens in the year of 2000. However, there could have been a steady increas...

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No. of Words: 256 200

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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 10 10
No. of Words: 256 200
No. of Characters: 1101 1000
No. of Different Words: 126 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.301 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.21 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 55 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 36 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 22 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 15 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.603 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.4 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.616 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.071 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4

I have some problems with this sentence:
"However, there could have been a steady increase in the number of this age level."
The increase is relevant to a time in the future (2050). I think "could have been" is a structure that can be used for describing a possibility in the past. Could you cast light on this problem?

'could have been' means there are possible present situations that have not happened. (Possible in Present)

I could have been earning a lot as an accountant but the work was just too boring.
He could have been Prime Minister now but he got involved in a big financial scandal.
They could have been the market leaders now if they had taken his advice.

So, this is more accurate:
However, there will be a steady increase in the number of this age level.