Q. What are the analyses provided by the study of human age pyramids?
The study of human age pyramids able to provide the following analyses, proportion of individuals at an economically active age, proportion of elderly (indicating the quality of the pension and health systems), proportion of children and youth (indicating need for job generation and educational services), reproductive profile (shows the population growth tendency), postnatal survival rate (indicates quality of the health system, hygiene conditions, poverty and nutrition), longevity profile, and so on.
It is possible to forecast whether a population belongs to a rich and industrialized society or to a poor country since the patterns of the age pyramids differ according to these conditions.