A country with a high rate of population growth took measures to reduce it. The figure below shows age sex…

A country with a high rate of population growth took measures to reduce it. The figure below shows age sex pyramids of populations. A and B twenty years apart. Select the correct interpretation about them
Interpretations
  1. ' $A$ ' is more recent and shows slight reduction in the growth rate
  2. ' $\mathrm{B}$ ' is earlier pyramid and shows stabilised growth rate
  3. ' $\mathrm{B}$ ' is more recent showing that population is very young
  4. ' $A$ ' is the earlier pyramid and no change has occurred in the growth rate

Solution

The Diagram A shows reduction in the number of males and females of the population. As you can see the 0-9 bar shows a total of 15 individuals in the digram B and the 0-9 bar in diagram A shows only 12 individuals. So Figure A shows slight reduction in the growth rate.

Asked in: NEET 2009 (Screening)

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