Introduction to Population Pyramids Worksheet
Population pyramids are graphs that show the age and gender distribution for a country during a given year. These graphs are a keystone for a chapter on human population demographics, because there is so much you can learn about a country by looking at it: whether the country is growing, stable, or shrinking, if there are a disproportionate number of boys or girls, and even an estimate of where along the demographic transition a country is. This worksheet provides a series of three data sets for students to construct population pyramids and begin to learn how to interpret them.
Essential concepts:Population pyramids, age distribution, gender distribution, demographics, human population.
