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Population pyramid and sex ratio
उत्तर
1. Demographers use population pyramids to describe age and genderwise distribution of population.
2. The Y-axis in the centre of this graph shows age groups while X-axis shows population or percentage of population in specific age groups.
3. The lengths of bars show the number of percentage of population.
4. The left side of graph represents the males while the right side represents the females.
5. The ratio between the number of women and men in the population is called the sex ratio. In India, it is calculated by using the formula:
Sex ratio = `"Total Female population"/"Total Male population"`× 1000
6. The gender distribution in a country is an important demographic characteristic and the sex ratio is an important information about the status of women in a country.
7. On an average, the world population reflects a sex ratio of 990 females per 1000 males.
8. In general, Asia has a low sex ratio.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Which one of the following is the largest linguistic group of India?
Which country has the highest sex ratio in the world?
Which state has the highest % of the rural population?
Expanding population pyranrd shows.
Which of the following programs sponsored by the central government aims at enabling the rural population to conserve water for drinking, irrigation, fisheries and afforestation?
India's population as per the 2011 census is:
The lowest sex ratio in the world is in which country?
Observe the following graph and answer the question given below.
- Which region has the highest literacy rate?
- Which region has the lowest literacy rate?
- In which region does women fare better than men in literacy rate?
- Write a concluding paragraph about the graph.
- What does this graph tells us?
"India is a land of linguistic diversity." Support the statement.
Which one of the following is the largest linguistic group of India?
