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Population pyramids
Piramides de población
Bilingual Project
Francisco Rodriguez Marín Institute –
Osuna (Seville)

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SOME VOCABULARY - 1
Población
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 Country
MEDCMEDC = More “ “ “
(examples of LEDCs: Bangladesh, Peru, Egypt)
(examples of MEDCs: Spain, Canada, Australia)
Población joven
Población adulta
Población anciana
Piramide 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

17. (C) Francesco Scudellari-Comenius Assistantship 2010/11File path - Student pool/Geography/Year
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.

18. (C) Francesco Scudellari-Comenius Assistantship 2010/11File path - Student pool/Geography/Year
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.)………