More on Population Pyramids

Canadian Provinces http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp- pd/pyramid-pyramide/his/index-eng.cfm Look at the differences between the provinces! Compare Newfoundland and Alberta What provinces/territories have rapidly declining birth rates? What provinces / territories have way more men than women? Why?

4 Kinds of Population Pyramids

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Unbalanced Pyramids

Lots of male workers Sometimes it is due to a large amount of temporary foreign male workers who work in nearly slave labour conditions The statistics show that 75.77% of Dubai’s population of approximately 2.2 million are men, and just 24.23% are women. http://www.aljazeera.com/p rogrammes/101east/2013/0 7/201372393525174524.ht ml

Preference for male babies Boys are often preferred in traditional Indian families More than 10m female births in India may have been lost to abortion and sex selection in the past 20 years, according to medical research https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=4iPGCIG3Gcs

There is a gender imbalance of  births: 118 males are born to every 100 females in China https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=ndWuq6A znmQ

Effect of War Look at how many more older women there are than men in Germany

Similarly, look at how many older women there are in Poland compared to the men.

Look at the dip in the number of 35-39 year olds there are, and then how many more older women there are than men. This corresponds with Pol Pot’s reign of terror and the civil war in which millions were killed.

Effect of Disease Third highest rate of HIV/AIDS Approx. 22% of the adult population has HIV