What does the age pyramid for a human population typically show?

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Another attribute characteristic of a population is sex ratio. An individual is either a male or a female but a population has a sex ratio (e.g., 60 percent of the population are females and 40 per cent males). A population at any given time is composed of individuals of different ages. If the age distribution (percent individuals of a given age or age group) is plotted for the population, the resulting structure is called an age pyramid (Figure 11.1). For the human population , the age pyramids generally show the