Population Pyramids

1. Complete the following glossary of terms:

Birth rate | Death rate | Life expectancy | Declining | Middle Age | Older Age | Dependency ratio | Concave | Convex | Population pyramid

• A graphic method of illustrating the age and sex structure of a population.
• Curving outwards.
• The number of births, per year, per 1000 people in the population.
• The ratio between those in the non-economically active age group (taken to be children under 15 and adults over 65) and those in the economically active age group (15 to 64).
• To become smaller, weaker, or less important.
• Subjectively: 40 – 64 years old.
• Curving inwards.
• The number of deaths, per year, per 1000 people in the population.
• Subjectively: 65 + years old.
• Average number of years a person at birth can expect to live.

2. Use populationpyramid.net to find a population pyramid for each of the the following countries:

• Kenya
• India
• Argentina
• Sweden
• United Kingdom
• France

3. Which of the following stages do you think that each country's population pyramid fits into?

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