The graph below shows the proportion of the population aged 65 and over between 1940 and 2040 in three different countries.

Essay topics:

The graph below shows the proportion of the population aged 65 and over between 1940 and 2040 in three different countries.

The line graph gives information about the percentage of the population aging 65 and above in the USA, Sweden and Japan from 1940 to 2040.

Overall, the aging population in of the 3 countries is predicted to increase in the next 20 years; however it is japan that projected the sharpest rise in the future from the lowest percentage in the past up to the present. Meanwhile, the number of people over 65 years old in the us and Sweden witnessed fluctuation over the period.

In details, beginning 1940, the number of elderly people in the us and Sweden stood at less than 10% which increased to 15% for America, a little less higher than Sweden at about 14% in 1980. 1980 to 2020, American people aging 65 and above slightly decreased and almost remained steady at less than 15% , then it will rise to less than one quarter from 2020 to 2040. In contrary, Sweden’s elderly population declined slightly from 1980 to mid-2000 before it rose to one fifth of the population. it will experience a decrease from 2020 but will also increase to one quarter in 2040.

On the other hand, Japan began at the bottom at around 5% of the retirement age population which continued to decline 20 years after and remained unchanged for almost 3 decades before it increased remarkably until the mid of 2020 and 2040. By 2040, it will reach the peak of over 25% of its elderly people.

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Average: 6.7 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 147, Rule ID: LESS_COMPARATIVE[1]
Message: Non-standard use of the comparative or superlative. Did you mean 'less high'?
Suggestion: less high
... increased to 15% for America, a little less higher than Sweden at about 14% in 1980. 1980 ...
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Line 5, column 304, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
... almost remained steady at less than 15% , then it will rise to less than one quar...
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Line 5, column 502, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...it rose to one fifth of the population. it will experience a decrease from 2020 bu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, then, while, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 2.0 7.0 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 1.00243902439 399% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 6.8 132% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 3.15609756098 95% => OK
Pronoun: 10.0 5.60731707317 178% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 33.7804878049 169% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 3.97073170732 227% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1134.0 965.302439024 117% => OK
No of words: 245.0 196.424390244 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.62857142857 4.92477711251 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95632099841 3.73543355544 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5041310307 2.65546596893 94% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 106.607317073 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489795918367 0.547539520022 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 335.7 283.868780488 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 22.4926829268 120% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 56.6156633215 43.030603864 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.0 112.824112599 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.2222222222 22.9334400587 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.44444444444 5.23603664747 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 1.69756097561 177% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 3.70975609756 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.09268292683 73% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177239384085 0.215688989381 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0875700216235 0.103423049105 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0654745214486 0.0843802449381 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142471928701 0.15604864568 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0674170990046 0.0819641961636 82% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.2329268293 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.99 61.2550243902 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.3012195122 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.87 11.4140731707 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.06136585366 97% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 40.7170731707 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.4329268293 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.9970731707 116% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.0658536585 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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