השוואת שיטות

	Population Pyramid Analysis	Dependency Ratio
תחום	דמוגרפיה	דמוגרפיה
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1874	1956
הוגה השיטה	Francis A. Walker (early age-sex diagrams); standard demographic practice	Standard demographic practice (United Nations / national statistical offices)
סוג	Graphical and tabular analysis of population age-sex structure	Ratio summarizing the age structure of economic dependency
מקור מכונן	Preston, S. H., Heuveline, P., & Guillot, M. (2001). Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes. Blackwell. ISBN: 9781557864512	Preston, S. H., Heuveline, P., & Guillot, M. (2001). Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes. Blackwell. ISBN: 9781557864512
כינויים	Age-sex pyramid, Population age structure diagram, Age structure analysis, Nüfus Piramidi Analizi	Age dependency ratio, Youth and old-age dependency ratio, Total dependency ratio, Bağımlılık Oranı
קשורות	4	4
תקציר	Population pyramid analysis is the description and interpretation of a population's age-sex structure through a back-to-back horizontal bar chart, with males on one side, females on the other, and age groups stacked from youngest at the bottom to oldest at the top. The shape of the pyramid encodes a population's fertility, mortality, and migration history and is the demographer's first diagnostic of whether a population is young and growing, ageing, or contracting.	The age dependency ratio is a simple summary measure of a population's age structure that expresses the number of people in 'dependent' age groups — children and the elderly — relative to those of working age, conventionally per 100 working-age persons. It is split into a youth dependency ratio and an old-age dependency ratio, and it is among the most widely used demographic indicators of the potential economic burden an age structure places on its productive population.