AGENDA
• Welcome!- Please grab both handouts
• What are Population Pyramids?
• Gallery Walk
• Guided Notes
• Exit Ticket
AP HUG: Unit 2, Population and
Migration
Topic 2.3- Population Composition
Watch this video first before analyzing the slides and doing the
guided notes
Gallery Walk Answers:
1. USA
2. Afghanistan
3. Greece
4. Germany
5. Vietnam
6. India
7. China
8. Sudan
9. Spain
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WHAT IS A POPULATION PYRAMID?
A visual representation of the demographics of a population in one
year (in an age range of 5 yr. increments)
▶ Displays two key demographic statistics:
age and gender
▶ Displays the # of males and females in each age group)
▶ Reflects population growth or decline over time
▶ Shows demographic trends and can predict some future
problems
It visually displays
a country’s
distinctive
population
structure.
Male Female
(left) (right)
Population (in hundreds, thousands,
millions, or in percentage) is along the base
of the pyramid
Interpreting a
Population Pyramid
Each line or step shows the incremental change of the
population at a certain age in one particular year. The change in
age is always in increments of five years.
Interpreting a
Population Pyramid
Angola France
True pyramids are in developing Developed countries are more
countries. (High birth rates, rectangular; population is spread
younger population, low life more equally through age groups.
expectancy)
Age Dependency Ratio
Age Dependency Ratio
Dependency Ratio is defined as the number of people who
are too young (under 15) or too old to work (over 65),
compared to the number of people in their productive years.
Dependency ratios emphasize burden on people ages over 15 and
under 65 who work to take care of the young and old.
This includes government services, businesses, and charities.
INTERPRETING POPULATION
PYRAMIDS
There are three main types
of pyramids
▶ Rapid growth
▶ Slow growth
▶ Negative growth
Pyramid/Christmas Tree- Box- Upside down pyramid,
Rapid growth Slow growth arrow head, or diamond -
negative growth
RAPID GROWTH PYRAMIDS
▶ Have a large base (high
birth rates)
▶ Death rates in higher age
ranges are low (because
few people reach old age)
▶ LDCs and developing
countries
RAPID GROWTH
SLOW GROWTH
PYRAMIDS
▶ More rectangular, box
shaped
▶ Population remains fairly
steady
▶ Birth rates and death rates
are at similar rate
▶ Developed countries- US,
Canada, Australia, some
parts of Europe, South Korea
SLOW GROWTH
The United
States
Population
Pyramid
The United
States
Population
Pyramid
The year 2030 will mark a
demographic turning point
for the United States.
Beginning that year, all baby
boomers (born between 1945
to 1964) will be older than
65. This will expand the size
of the older population so
that one in every five
Americans is projected to be
retirement age.
By 2035, older adults will
outnumber children for the
first time in U.S. history.
NEGATIVE GROWTH PYRAMIDS
▶ Often looks like an upside down pyramid,
sometimes a diamond, arrowhead or
hexagon
▶ The population of the country is
decreasing- large working class age group
▶ Death rates are higher than birth rates-
but overall death rates are low (longer life
expectancy)
▶ Japan, Spain, Germany, Hungary are
nearing a negative growth stage
NEGATIVE GROWTH
EXIT TICKET
• On the back of your notes, Analyze the
population pyramid for the United Arab
Emirates (2016) and answer the 2 questions.
• Reflect on how you got to your answer and
what your answer may mean in terms of
situation (What was maybe going on during
that time period). Write down your
assumptions.
