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Exploring population pyramids

As a GCSE geographer you will be expected to understand and interpret population pyramids. You must be able to explain what they show about the demography of a country, compare population pyramids of different countries and link them to geographical theories

Figure 1 Population pyramid for London compared to UK (2011)

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Population pyramids are a type of graph used to show the population structure of a country. The graph plots the percentage of people in different age groups and divides it into female and male, as shown in Figure 1. Population pyramids are a type of a histogram as they show continuous data and when drawn the bars are touching.

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