Population Pyramids

Shows how a countrys population can be split into groups of men and women of different ages.

• Stage One: High birth rate, rapid fall in each upward age group due to high death rates, short life expectancy - concave pyramid
• Stage Two: Still a high birth rate, fall in death rate as more living in middle age, slightly longer life expectancy
• Stage Three: Declining birth rate, low death rate, more people living to an older age
• Stage Four: Low birth rate, low death rate, higher dependency ratio, longer life expectancy
• Stage Five: Low and falling birth rate, falling fertility rate, ageing population

• Kenya is an LEDC
• women live longer
• 30,507,979 people
• more women over the age of 39 than men
• more men under the age of 39
• birth rate is remaining high and death rate is high
• children are an asset as they are needed for farming, they die young so more children are born

• LEDC
• Males make up a higher percentage of the young
• females are generally older
• Age groups get smaller and smaller the older people get
• high birth rate suggest stage 2
• population 1.2 billion

• LEDC
• women live longer
• large male population
• 0-15 years more men from the younger ages
• 16-39 there are more women for the middle ages
• 40-64 similar numbers
• 65+ years more women
• birth rate not very high
• death rate not very high
• population 1,268,853,362

• MEDC
• Population begins to decrease
• birth rate decreases because children are expensive to raise
• many people are dependent on relatives
• women live longer
• people are living for longer
• immigrants into the country at working age
• population 82,187,909