the charts below compare the age structure of the populations of France and India in 1984

the charts below compare the age structure of the populations of France and India in 1984
The bar graphs give information about the populations of two different countries in terms of the dwellers’ ages in the year 1984.
Overall
, the
population
of India was younger than that of France in 1984, with a noticeably larger proportion of
people
aged under 20. France,
on the other hand
, had a significantly larger percentage of elderly inhabitants. In India, close to 14% of
people
were aged 5 or under, and each five-year bracket above
this
contained an increasingly smaller proportion of the
population
. France’s
population
,
by contrast
, was more evenly distributed across the age ranges, with similar figures (around 7% to 8% of all
people
) for each five-year cohort between the ages of 0 and 40. Somewhere between 10% and 15% of all French
people
were aged 70 or older, but the equivalent figure for India was only 2%. Looking more closely at gender, there was a noticeably higher proportion of French women than men in every cohort from age 50 upwards.
For example
, almost 3% of French 70- to 75-year-olds were women
while
just under 2% were men. No significant gender differences can be seen on the Indian
population
chart.
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  • charts
  • age structure
  • populations
  • France
  • India
  • 1984
  • overall
  • different
  • evenly distributed
  • proportion
  • young people
  • elderly individuals
  • largest age group
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