Question

A country with a high rate of population growth took measures reduce it. The figure below shows age-sex pyramids of populations A and B twenty years apart. Select the correct interpretation about them.

• A. B is less recent, showing that population is very young.
• B. A is the earlier pyramid and no change has occurred in the growth rate.
• C. A is more recent and shows slight reduction the growth rate.
• D. B is earlier pyramid and shows stabilised growth rate.

Answer 1

The correct option is C A is more recent and shows slight reduction the growth rate.

Population pyramid shows the distribution of the population in the country. The pyramid being broad-based shows high growth rate, high death rate, and short life expectancy. However, comparing the two pyramids show that B represents the population pyramid with the high birth rate as both males and females between the age group 0-9 touched 15 million. The figure A shows a reduced birth rate as the 0-9 age group is only at 12 million. Figure A, therefore, represents the recent population statistics after the reduction measures have been taken by the country.