The question
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________ An aging country: its pyramid, its dependency ratio and its choices (7 points)
Data
Population pyramid of Country Z
Invented data for practice.
(A) Identify Identify the shape of the population pyramid of Country Z. [1 point]
Identify means: Give the information asked for: a word or short phrase can earn the point, with no reasons needed.
(B) Describe Describe the age structure of Country Z shown in the pyramid. [1 point]
Describe means: Give the relevant characteristics: what it is like, where and how much. A name alone earns nothing.
(C) Explain Explain one demographic reason for the narrow base of the pyramid. [1 point]
Explain means: Say how or why, with every link of the chain: a cause, then because or so, then its effect, tied to the place or data asked about.
(D) Explain Explain how Country Z’s elderly dependency ratio is likely to change over the next 20 years. [1 point]
Explain means: Say how or why, with every link of the chain: a cause, then because or so, then its effect, tied to the place or data asked about.
(E) Explain Explain one economic effect of this age structure on Country Z. [1 point]
Explain means: Say how or why, with every link of the chain: a cause, then because or so, then its effect, tied to the place or data asked about.
(F) Explain Explain how one government policy could reduce the economic effect you described in part E. [1 point]
Explain means: Say how or why, with every link of the chain: a cause, then because or so, then its effect, tied to the place or data asked about.
(G) Explain the degree Explain the degree to which Country Z’s age structure is typical of the world’s population at the global scale. [1 point]
Explain the degree means: State the degree first (to a high, moderate or low degree), then explain why with evidence.