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The study of age structure is important

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Answered by Anonymous
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Distribution of population with study of age structures is quite important with the demographic groupings. Study of the age occupies important place across the demographic statistics. Indices in population's age are structure plays important part in whole system that would efficiently brings prominent solution.

Answered by Sweetbuddy
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The age structure of a population is the distribution of people among various ages. It is a useful tool for social scientists, public health and health care experts, policy analysts, and policy-makers because it illustrates population trends like rates of births and deaths. These are important to understand because they have a host of social and economic implications in society, like understanding the resources that must be allocated for childcare, schooling, and healthcare, and the familial and greater social implications of whether there are more children or elderly in society.

In graphic form, age structure is portrayed as an age pyramid that shows the youngest age cohort at the bottom, with each additional layer showing the next oldest cohort. Typically males are indicated on the left and females on the right, like that pictured above.

Concepts and Implications

Both age structure and age pyramids can take a variety of forms, depending on the birth and death trends within the population, as well as a host of other social factors. They can be stable, meaning that patterns of birth and death are unchanging over time; stationary, which signals both low birth and death rates (they slope gently inward and have a rounded top); expansive, which slope dramatically inward and upward from the base, indicate that a population has both high birth and death rates; or constrictive, which signal low birth and death rates, and expand outward from the base before sloping inward to achieve a rounded peak at the top.

The current U.S. age structure and pyramid, shown above, is a constrictive model, which is typical of developed countries where family planning practices are common and access to birth control is (ideally) easy, and where advanced medicine and treatments are commonly available through accessible and affordable healthcare (again, ideally). This pyramid shows us that the birth rate has slowed in recent years because we can see that there are more teens and young adults in the U.S. today than there are young children (the birth rate is lower today than it was in the past).

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