Population Pyramids = graphic device that represents a population?s age and sex composition. Pyramid describes diagram?s shape for many countries in 1800?s when was created. A broad base of younger age groups and progressively narrowing to apex as older Populations were thinned by death. Now there are many different shapes. Quickly growing population of Kenya ? jas ,most people in lowest age cohorts Percentage in older age groups declines successively with markedly sloping sides. Typically female life expectancy is decreased in older cohorts of less developed countries ? 50 for Kenya ? proportion of females in older age groups is less than in Sweden or U.S.
Population Pyramid Examples
Population Pyramids = graphic device that represents a population?s age and sex composition. Pyramid describes diagram?s shape for many countries in 1800?s when was created. A broad base of younger age groups and progressively narrowing to apex as older Populations were thinned by death. Now there are many different shapes. Quickly growing population of Kenya ? jas ,most people in lowest age cohorts Percentage in older age groups declines successively with markedly sloping sides. Typically female life expectancy is decreased in older cohorts of less developed countries ? 50 for Kenya ? proportion of females in older age groups is less than in Sweden or U.S.
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