1. POPULATION PYRAMIDS

2. LESSON OBJECTIVES
o know what a population pyramid is
o understand what they tell us.
o know how to draw a population pyramid

3. POPULATION
nderstanding the population of a country not only tells us
how many people live in an area.
e can also begin to look at how many young and old people
there are
e can also look at home many men and women there are
his allows us to work out a lot of information about each
country.

4. POPULATION PYRAMIDS
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5. THE DATA
Age Range Male Female
(1000s) (1000s)
0-16 50 50
16-25 15 40
25-40 35 35
40-65 25 30
65-100 5 10

7. Blue = 65
+
Red =
males 40- female
65
25-
40
16-
25
0-
16
60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60

8. TASK
ook at your labels
hey will refer to different sections of your population
pyramid
tick them on and draw an arrow to that section

9. The number of people between
16-65 tells us how many people
are working, which means they
The birth rate tells us how pay taxes to the government
many children per 1000 are
born each year. The higher the
LABELS
birth rate, the lower developed The death rate is the number
the country is of people, per 1000, who die
each year. The higher this
number, the lower developed
The number of people in the 0- the country is
16 category tells us how many
people are in schools
The number of people over 65
tells us how many people are
If a bar is much shorter than retired.
you would expect, this says
that something has happened,
such as war or disease. The The higher the age categories
more wars and diseases tells us the better the life expectancy,
that a country is less which shows the country is well
developed. developed

10. The higher the age categories the better the life
expectancy, which shows the country is well developed
The death rate is the number of people, per 1000, who
die each year. The higher this number, the lower The number of people over 65 tells us how many people
developed the country is are retired.
The number of people
between 16-65 tells us
65 how many people are
+ working, which means
they pay taxes to the
If a bar is much shorter than you government
would expect, this says that
40-
something has happened, such as 65
war or disease. The more wars and
diseases tells us that a country is 25-
less developed. 40 The number of
people in the 0-16
category tells us
how many people
are in schools
16-
The birth rate tells us
how many children per
25
1000 are born each year.
The higher the birth rate,
the lower developed the
country is 0-
16
60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60

11. THE UK POPULATION
PYRAMID
lick: Here

12. HOMEWORK
ou have the data for Afghanistan
onstruct your own population pyramid in the grid provided
ry to explain what this says about the country