Population pyramids
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Population pyramids
Piramides de población
Bilingual Project
Francisco Rodriguez Marín Institute –
Osuna (Seville)
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SOME VOCABULARY - 1Población
Demografía
Fuentes demográficas
Densidad de población
Tasa de nadalidad
Tasa de mortalidad
Esperanza de vida
Crecimiento natural
Emigración
Inmigración
Population
Demography
Demographic sources
Population density
Birth rate
Death rate
Life expectancy
Rate of natural increase
Emigration
Immigration
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SOME VOCABULARY - 2
LEDCLEDC = Less Economically Developed CountryMEDCMEDC = More “ “ “
(examples of LEDCs: Bangladesh, Peru, Egypt)(examples of MEDCs: Spain, Canada, Australia)
Población jovenPoblación adultaPoblación ancianaPiramide de población
Young people
Adult people
Elderly people
Population pyramid
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How do population pyramids help us learn
about population?
Let’s see some examples.
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Population pyramids are used to show information about the age and gender of people in a specific country.
FOR EXAMPLE:
Male Female
Population
(in millions)
In this country
there is a high Birth
Rate
There is also a high
Death Rate.
This population pyramid is typical of countries in poorer parts of the world
(LEDCs.)
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In some LEDCs the government is
encouraging couples to have smaller families. This means the birth
rate has fallen.
POPULATION PYRAMID OF BANGLADESH (year 2000)
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Male Female
Population in millions
In this country the number of people in each age group is
about the same.
The largest category of people were born about 40 years
ago.
In this country there is a low Birth Rate and a low Death Rate.
This population pyramid is typical of countries in the richer parts of the
world (MEDCs.)
ANOTHER EXAMPLE
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Population in millions
Male Female
In this country the birth rate is decreasing.
In the future the elderly people will make up the
largest section of the population in this
country.
This is happening more and more in
many of the world’s richer
countries.
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Male Female
Population in thousands
This country has a large number of temporary workers.
These are people who migrate here especially to find
a job.
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Population pyramid for Mozambique.
Population pyramid for Iceland.
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What happens next?
POPULATION PYRAMID OF JAPAN in the year 2000
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POPULATION PYRAMID OF JAPAN in the year 2025
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What is going to happen to Japan’s population in the future?
Why does this matter?
POPULATION PYRAMID OF JAPAN in the year 2050
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POPULATION PYRAMID OF INDIA in the year 2000
What happens next?
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POPULATION PYRAMID OF INDIA in the year 2025
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POPULATION PYRAMID OF INDIA in the year 2050
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Your task:
•Open your own PowerPoint presentation.
•Go to www.census.gov www.census.gov
•Select Search and type in IDB.
•Select International Database
•From here select Population Pyramids.
•Find a population pyramid typical of a poor country (LEDC) copy and paste it into your PowerPoint document then add labels to explain what is shown.
•Repeat for an MEDC (rich) country.
•For a country of your choice copy and paste the pyramids for 2000, 2025 and 2050.
•Write about what the graphs show and try to give reasons for the patterns. Explain how the population of this country is changing and say how that could affect the country.
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9/Population/Pyramids
Your task:
•Open your own PowerPoint presentation.
•Go to www.census.gov www.census.gov
•Select Search and type in IDB.
•Select International Database
•From here select Population Pyramids.
•Find a population pyramid typical of a poor country (LEDC) copy and paste it into your PowerPoint document then add labels to explain what is shown.
•Repeat for an MEDC (rich) country.
•For a country of your choice copy and paste the pyramids for 2000, 2025 and 2050.
•Write about what the graphs show and try to give reasons for the patterns. Explain how the population of this country is changing and say how that could affect the country.
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When you have finished;
Find out some background information on each country and add this to your presentation.
Concentrate on facts and figures which you can use to compare the countries such as % of the children at school, type of jobs available, how rich or poor (GDP per capita.)………