Question

Look at the population pyramid in the figure and answer these questions:

(a) What is the population pyramid?

b) What is its significance and what information can it give?

(c) What does the shape at the top of the pyramid indicate?
(d) Which country out of these is most likely to have such a pyramid? A developing country, a developed country, or an underdeveloped country?

e) What can you say about the birth rates of the country? Give evidence.

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Population Pyramid

Population pyramids are important graphs for visualizing how populations are composed when looking a groups divided by age and sex. There are three trends in population pyramids: expansive, constrictive, and stationary.