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

The two charts compare the populations of France and

India

in terms of

age

distribution by gender in the year 1984.

It is clear that

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

age

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.