Question

View the population pyramid that reflects the current world population distribution by selecting 2015 in the drop-down menu to the right of the pyramid. Then answer these questions:

Analyze the shape of the pyramid. What points of information from the pyramid stand out to you?
Compared to the population pyramid of 1965, what shifts in the world’s population do you notice?

Answer 1

According to the population pyramid, the one-child policy has been successful. The pyramid has morphed into a cylinder with just a few bumps, indicating steady birthrates for decades. It also reveals that the 0-4 age group accounts for just around 6% of the population. This data corresponds to the population pyramids of stable Western nations such as Germany and the United States.

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Answer 2

Analyze the shape of the pyramid. What points of information from the pyramid stand out to you?

The pyramid has indeed the shape of a pyramid, although it is a bit narrow.

What stands out the most is that people younger than 24 still represent the age brackets with the largest share of the population. However, the difference is very small compared to the age brackets of people in adulthood.

People older than 60 still represent the smallest groups.

Compared to the population pyramid of 1965, what shifts in the world’s population do you notice?

The shape of the pyramid of 1965 was much broader at the bottom, this means that the lower age brackets represented a larger share of the world's population.

For example, the youngest group: those aged 0-4, represented in 1965, 14.3% of the world's population, while in 2015, they represented 9.1% of the world's population. This tells us that the world population is aging.