{"id":2553,"date":"2015-01-09T16:28:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T05:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2015-01-09T16:28:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T05:28:32","slug":"the-economist-the-end-of-the-population-pyramid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=2553","title":{"rendered":"The Economist: The end of the population pyramid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/graphicdetail\/2014\/11\/daily-chart-10?fsrc=scn\/fb\/wl\/dc\/vi\/endofpopulationpyramid<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/s0.2mdn.net\/instream\/video\/client.js\" async=\"\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script id=\"s2twai38252878f434581f85b249661cd94\" src=\"http:\/\/webservices.sub2tech.com\/sub2matchws\/v14.0\/sub2match.svc\/getIndividual?ClientID=694E5E17-5C38-4DD3-AB8B-3534D6B5B346&amp;individual=1&amp;r=95079&amp;s2c=&lt;S2Cookies&gt;&lt;\/S2Cookies&gt;\" async=\"\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><script 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class=\"blog-sponsor\">Daily chart<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hgroup class=\"typog-content-header main-content-header\">\n<h3 class=\"headline\">The end of the population pyramid<\/h3>\n<\/hgroup>\n<aside class=\"floatleft light-grey\"><time class=\"date-created\">Nov 18th 2014, 14:17<\/time> <span class=\"location\">by P.J.W. and J.P.<\/span><\/aside>\n<aside class=\"floatleft light-grey\"><\/aside>\n<aside class=\"floatleft light-grey\">Chart Link: http:\/\/econ.st\/1u5Myt2<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"floatleft light-grey\"><\/aside>\n<div class=\"main-content\">\n<p><strong>The shape of the world&#8217;s demography is changing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object id=\"myExperience_1425961410001_3884695255001\" class=\"BrightcoveExperience\" 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If you draw a chart with each age group represented by a bar, and each bar ranged one above the other\u2014youngest at the bottom, oldest at the top, and with the sexes separated\u2014that is the shape you get. The pyramid was characteristic of human populations since the day organised societies emerged. With lifespans short and mortality rates high, children were always the most numerous group, and old people the least. Now the shape of the global population is changing.\u00a0Between 1970 and 2015 the dominating influence on the global population was the fertility rate, the number of children a woman would typically bear during her lifetime. It fell dramatically over the period, meaning that the world shifted from having larger to smaller families.\u00a0The age groups start to become markedly smaller only about the age of 40, so the incline starts much further up the chart than with the pyramid.\u00a0The shape looks more like the dome of the Capitol building in Washington, DC.\u00a0Between 2015 and 2060 the biggest influence upon the population will be ageing. Small families are already becoming the norm, the fall in fertility is slowing down and now almost everyone is living longer than their parents\u2014dramatically so in developing countries.\u00a0So, by 2060, the dome will have come and gone and the shape of the population will look more like a column (or perhaps an old-fashioned beehive).<\/p>\n<p>Read the full\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/21631911-end-population-pyramid-world-reshaped\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<em>The World In 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/graphicdetail\/2014\/11\/daily-chart-10?fsrc=scn\/fb\/wl\/dc\/vi\/endofpopulationpyramid Daily chart: The end of the population pyramid | The Economist Graphic detail Charts, maps and infographics Daily chart The end of the population pyramid Nov 18th 2014, 14:17 by P.J.W. and J.P. 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