How do we know if a species is heading towards extinction? Demographics help us understand the size, status, and behavior of populations. Broadly defined, demography is the study of the ...

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THE pyramid is a traditional way of visualising and explaining the age structure of a society. If you draw a chart with each age group represented by a bar, and each bar ranged one above the ...