Demographic detective report by Divine Ike

What is where ? Dependency Load

divineike — 2024-05-03 17:33:42 UTC

Canada: 35__% younger = 15.3 older = 19.7

Greece: 36.5____% 13.5 + 23

Benin: 45.4__% 42.3 + 3.1

Analysis:

Benin has the highest dependency load, Greece has the second highest dependency load, and Canada has the lowest dependency load.

What is where ? Birth rate

divineike — 2024-05-03 17:34:01 UTC

Canada: 4.9% (of the population is in the 0-4 age cohort) - this is not the birth rate!

Greece:3.9%

Benin:16.1%

Analysis:

Benin has the highest birth rate ,Canada has the second highest birth rate and Greece has the lowest birth rate.

What is where ? life expectancy

divineike — 2024-05-03 17:34:31 UTC

Canada: 8.6% (of the population is aged 75+) - this is not the life expectancy!

Greece:16.9%

Benin:0.9%

Analysis: Greece has the highest life expectancy,Canada has the second highest life expectancy and Benin has the lowest life expectancy

Why is it there ?

divineike — 2024-05-03 17:34:47 UTC

Why do different countries have different life expectancies?

There isn't enough young people taking care of them. Some countries do not have elderly homes.

Some countries have elderly homes. More younger people that can take care of them.

Why do different countries have different birth rates?

Some women want to have more children and the women stay home with the children. Some of them want to stay home and some of them want to work, but then they don't have time for their children.

Why do some countries have more older people than other countries?

Because they don't die young due to the fact that they have more things such as home shelters

Why do we care ?

divineike — 2024-05-03 17:35:01 UTC

Why is it important to understand that there are differences between life expectancies and birth rates between countries?

We can make it a better place and to make changes. Those changes would be home shelters and more daycare.

Definitions

divineike — 2024-05-03 17:35:48 UTC

Life expectancy
This is the number of years a person can expect to live.
Birth rate
This is the ratio between the number of liveborn births in the year and the average total population of that year.
Dependency load
is a measure of the number of dependents aged zero to 14 and over the age of 65, compared with the total population aged 15 to 64.