Population Pyramids
What does a population pyramid show?
The population of a country
Calculate the birth rate for this country:
Total Population: 1, 800, 255
Total Births: 8, 550
*Round to two decimal places
4.75
What is demographics?
The study of populations
If most of the population is in the working class in 2026, what stage was most of the population in in the year 2004?
Children / Childhood
What's the birth rate formula?
(Births / total population) x 1000
What is the word for a population pyramid that is
a) rectangle shaped?
b) right side up triangle?
c) upside down triangle?
a) stable/stationary
b) Increasing/Expanding
c) Declining
Calculate the death rate for this country:
Total Population: 1, 800, 255
Total Deaths: 1, 320
*Round to two decimal places
0.733
What two factors take people away from the population?
Death and emigration
Japan's experiencing a declining population. Name 3 services they should invest in
3 OF ANY OF THESE:
healthcare, nursing, hospitals, medical school, family doctors, personal support care workers, old age homes, senior's centres
What's the death rate formula?
(Deaths / total population) x 1000
What is the dependency load?
The people who don't work (kids and seniors)
If the birth rate is 4.75 and the death rate is 0.733, what is the natural increase rate?
4.017
(4.75-0.733)
IMMIGRATION & EMIGRATION Which one's which? write the word next to the letter:
a) the people moving into the country
b) the people moving out of the country
IMMIGRATION - a
EMIGRATION - b
Canada's birth rate is declining, but our population is still growing. How?
Immigration is very high
How are the immigration formula and the birth rate formula the same? (3 things)
both divided by the total population, both times by 100, both represent people coming IN to the country
How do you know the difference between a steady pyramid and a decreasing pyramid?
Steady: little at the top
Decreasing: wider at the top
If the net migration rate is 0.7, and the immigration rate is 1.4, what is the emigration rate?
0.7
Name both internal and external population factors
Internal: birth and death rate
External: immigration and emigration rate
What could a negative growth country do to increase the population of the younger age groups to become more stable?
Increase services for families, provide financial support, lower daycare cost, ease immigration for families.
What do the natural increase rate and the net migration rate have in common?
both take people coming in and then subtract people going out
What is causing Canada to start being in a Declining population pyramid?
Baby boomers getting older (Canada's biggest generation)
The birth rate doing down
If the net immigration rate is 0.2 and the population growth rate is 0.002%, what is the natural growth rate?
1.8
What thing in our lives do we use to define the three age - stages in demographics
Our profession / our working years / the economy
The net migration rate is very high, but the population growth rate is still negative.
What is the only rate that is in percent (%) and not multiplied by 1000 people?
The population growth rate (NIR + NMG)