Population pyramids
What Population pyramids means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Graphs showing demographic structures, with the x-axis displaying population size or percentage and the y-axis showing age cohorts.
Specialised back-to-back bar charts showing age and sex structures.
Topics that use Population pyramids
- Graphical skills (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Choropleth maps
- Continuous data
- Contour lines
- Data presentation
- Desire lines
- Discrete data
- Dot map
- Gradient
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