demographic detective report by Maheera Binte Sharif

What is where? birth rate

maheerabintesharif — 2024-05-02 18:24:15 UTC

Zambia has the highest percentage of children aged 0-4 meaning they have the most children which entails that they probably have the highest birth rate considering how many more children they have than the elderly, while Japan who has the exact opposite situation has the least amount of children aged 0-4 meaning they probably have the lowest birth rate while Canada remains just at the middle like most other statistics.

What is where? (life expectancy)

maheerabintesharif — 2024-05-02 18:25:47 UTC

Japan has the highest percentage of people aged 75+ because as previously mentioned people in japan tend to live longer and a large percent od people are elderly while Zambia has the exact opposite situation people in Zambia don’t live nearly as long so the percentage of 75+ is at only 0.4 percent meaning most people die then or before probably because of the lack or stability in order to live that long. While Canada once again remains in the middle as Canada is a first-world country most people have the opportunity to live long healthy lives Canada cant compare to the lifestyle of the Japanese.

what is where? (dependancy load)

maheerabintesharif — 2024-05-02 18:29:12 UTC

Zambia has the highest dependency load because they give birth to the most children and have a huge youth population that aren't in the workforce while many children in Zambia are working the dependency load is way bigger because of the children in it Japan has the second-highest dependency load because Japan has a large elderly population and people tend to live longer there so a huge portion of the population are not in the workforce, though Japan doesn’t fall too far behind with a similar situation Canada has the lowest dependency load because Canada very much values its workforce and wants and depends on working-aged adults to keep

their economy afloat So much so that Canada brings immigrants into Canada just so we can have enough workers and enough taxpayer dollars to keep our free healthcare-practicing country afloat.

Why is it there?

maheerabintesharif — 2024-06-24 16:04:37 UTC

Why these diffrences exist is simply because all these countries are completly diffrent and are under diffrent conditions which is shown in their statictics. Diffrent countries have diffrent culture diffrent tabos diffrent economical situations and diffrent weather conditions that all affect way of life which affects population, birth rate, life exectancy and dependancy load.

DEFINITIONS

maheerabintesharif — 2024-06-24 16:05:23 UTC

Birth rate: The rate at which children are born.

Life expectancy: How long people tend to live.

Depandancy load: What percentange of the population is not working and depends on thr working population.

why do we care?

maheerabintesharif — 2024-06-24 16:06:05 UTC

Why should we care about these differences ?

We should care because these statictics tell us alot about the life style and socio-economical problems in that country all with a couple numbers, more example we can tell that people in Japan live extreamly healthy lives because a huge percent of people go on to live a long life which can tell us alot about Japans culture and the way people may live based on that information, and in Zambia most of the population are children telling us that they have a lot of babies in Zambia and that lets us speculate about the culture there and whats it like in Zambia and why or why not certain things happen.

Why is it useful for the future?

These stats help us predict or speculate the growth of a country and problems a country might face because of the way the population is spread out.