Shrinking Korea
This is the text version of the interactive 3D documentary. 한국어
Contents · Chapter 1 Korea today
The shape in 1970
Lots of children, few older people — a pyramid wide at the bottom
One dot = 10,000 people
Each dot stands for 10,000 people in Korea. Age 0 is at the bottom, and people get older as you go up. Men are on the left, women on the right. In 1970 there were more children than any other age, so the shape is a pyramid with a wide base. Children under 15 made up 42% of everyone.
Why?When many babies are born every year and a few people are lost at each age, you get a shape that is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top.
Go furtherThis picture is called a population pyramid. Light blue is ages 0–14, yellow is 15–64 (working age), and pink is 65 and older.
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