A population pyramid shows the overall demographic structure of a country's population.

Demographic Research, Vol. 35 (JULY - DECEMBER 2016), pp. 867-890 (26 pages) BACKGROUND The population pyramid is one of the most popular tools for visualising population age structure. However, it is ...

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 other ...

For most stable, peacetime societies, the resulting figure would look like a pyramid, with the youngest people at the base and the oldest people up at the tip.