Age/sex structure Flashcards
1
Q
High proportion of older people
A
High death rate
2
Q
LICs with low life expectancy
A
High child aged population as ‘insurance children’ are produced as parents expect child death.
3
Q
Many women of child bearing age
A
- birth rate will be higher
- future age/sex diagram will have more children (larger on bottom )
- low stationary shape to early/late expanding.
4
Q
After war diagram would look
A
-Baby boom occurs after war
- families who delayed having kids due to unsafe circumstances now have kids.
- high stationary diagram
5
Q
Higher rates of education decreases :
So diagram looks:
A
-Birth rate
-low stationary to declining
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