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The US Census Bureau recently released estimates of the 2017 US population by sex and year of age. That demographic data is often represented in a population pyramid. The US population pyramid clearly ...
Demographic Research, Vol. 35 (JULY - DECEMBER 2016), pp. 867-890 (26 pages) BACKGROUND The population pyramid is one of the most popular tools for visualising population age structure. However, it is ...
THE pyramid is a traditional way of visualising and explaining the age structure of a society. If you draw a chart with each age group represented by a bar, and each bar ranged one above the ...
America's population is growing, and should continue to grow for the next several decades. The US Census Bureau recently released updated projections of the makeup of the US population over the next ...
It’s the futurist’s first rule: You can’t understand the future without demographics. The composition of a society–whether its citizens are old or young, prosperous or declining, rural or urban–shapes ...
For almost all of human history, the Earth’s population has skewed younger. But since the last World Population Day on July 11, a major shift occurred: There are now more people age 65 and older than ...
China’s “inverted pyramid” population structure is generating a profound impact on consumption and haunting its long-term growth potential, forcing economists to join demographers in calling for ...