So, I’m pretty interested in the state of the world and how populations in wealthier countries are starting to fall. I was kind of looking at charts, population pyramid charts to be exact and I found that population pyramids, while interesting don’t show the decline in as interesting way as a line graph. So I took it upon myself to grab the info and change them into line graphs that can be viewed more easily. Below are a bunch for your perusal.
Working age population – WorldThere we go, it’s pretty straightforward. You can click the labels on the side to turn on/off certain lines to highlight what you want to see. Clicking on a link will open new window, also, if you change the windows size, please refresh to make it fit your window. To explain we have a number of data sets here, population of a given region, percentage of population of a given region, population of people of working age of a given region and finally a percentage of the working population of a given region. I chose regions/countries that made sense to me. I could’ve picked China but I don’t trust their numbers on anything, even bad numbers. Enjoy!
I think one of the neat things to look at as a Canadian is the percentage based charts, particularly those of working age. I separated the charts out as a basis of percentage in groups from 0-14, 15-64 and 65+. You look at these things and you can see why we’re having some issues. For example, we here in Canada have 45% of the children we had in 1960 on a per capita basis. We also crossed the threshold of having more 65+ people than working age people back in 2010, the line was crossed for women back in 1988.
Another thing I see is that, for Canada, the percentage of adults goes up in bumps over the years but not so much for children. I suspect that is because despite having so much immigration in certain spots, even they are not having that many children either. That’s interesting to me as well.
Anyways, hope you enjoy. These charts are an interesting way to look at demographics in a different way from pyramid charts.
| August 25th, 2024 | Posted in Miscellaneous stuff |