Answer the following questions:

What are population pyramids? How do they help in understanding about the population of a country?

The distribution of population is shown by the age structure and male-female ratio diagram. This is called population pyramid.

The shape of the population pyramid of a country reveals two major details about the distribution of population according to age-group and sex-ratio. It also tells us as to how many dependents are there in a country. Population pyramid helps the government of a country to make provisions accordingly.


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