Age structure can be represented graphically with a population pyramid (Figure 3). Although a population's age structure is not always pyramidal in shape, most populations have younger cohorts ...

In 2015 demographers, teachers and politicians will stop talking about the population pyramid and start referring to the population dome. The change in terminology will reflect a profound shift in ...

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

The US population is expected to keep growing through at least 2060, the last year of the projections. By that time, the Census Bureau predicts that the US will have around 417 million people, up ...

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 ...