In 2015 demographers, teachers and politicians will stop talking about the population pyramid and start referring to the population dome. The change in terminology will reflect a profound shift in the ...

Population pyramids close population pyramidA population pyramid is a special graph that can be used to show the specific age breakdown of a population. show the structure of a population by comparing ...

China’s “inverted pyramid” population structure is generating a profound impact on consumption and haunting its long-term growth potential, forcing economists to join demographers in calling for ...

America's population is growing, and should continue to grow for the next several decades. The US Census Bureau recently released updated projections of the makeup of the US population over the next ...

We seem fascinated by generations, using them to evoke shared experiences and to push us apart. Demography, the science of population change, defines a cohort as a group of people born at roughly the ...

THE pyramid is a traditional way of visualising and explaining the age structure of a society. If you draw a chart with each age group represented by a bar, and each bar ranged one above the ...

Today is Population Census Day in Japan. And while it comes around every five years in Japan, Friday's survey could be the first to provide concrete, stark evidence of the country's dramatic ...

Although Pakistan’s population growth rate has slowed to 1.82 per cent annually, the country is still adding millions of ...