| Its population pyramid has become dome-shaped and is slowly turning into a pear. |
| In 2015 demographers, teachers and politicians will stop talking about the population pyramid and start referring to the population dome. |
| Large or small cohorts of people born in the same year can be seen to move up the life span and the population pyramid over time. |
| The age-specific distribution of a population is often visually presented with a population pyramid, with males depicted on the left, and females on the right. |
| A population pyramid is one of the most elegant ways of presenting age and sex distribution data graphically, but it is used strictly for descriptive purposes. |
| Fertility and mortality of the population are also reflected in the shape of the population pyramid. |
