A population pyramid shows the overall demographic structure of a country's population.

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 other ...

For most stable, peacetime societies, the resulting figure would look like a pyramid, with the youngest people at the base and the oldest people up at the tip.

China’s demographic structure is gradually shifting towards an inverted pyramid shape as its population is greying faster, central bank adviser Cai Fang says.