Population Pyramids

This activity teaches how and why population pyramids are useful and how to construct them (a file containing special graph paper is also provided). Students practice analyzing age-gender distribution graphs. Leading questions offer ideas for discussion. More...

NOTE: also see this website for some very cool interactive population pyramids showing world-wide and country populations over time http://populationpyramid.net/.

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