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POPULATION PYRAMID [4 records]

Record 1 2014-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Population Movements
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

In general, the population pyramid reflects a broad-base pattern, characteristic of Tuvalu with about half of its population being young.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mouvements de population
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 2 2009-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
CONT

A glance at the entry, ecological community, will reflect the ecological pyramid, made up of trophic levels. The ecological law involved in such a pyramid is that the higher one goes the lower are the number of individuals in the population, and the larger their specimen size.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
OBS

Ne pas confondre cette notion avec celle de loi portant sur l'environnement, loi promulguée par une autorité afin de lutter contre la pollution de l'environnement. Il s'agit plutôt ici des lois qu'on observe dans la nature non touchée par la pollution.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
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Record 3 2004-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Monographs
  • Demography
OBS

Public Health Agency of Canada. The Population Study focuses on the very base of the reporting pyramid-the community. It provides key information on the magnitude and burden of acute gastrointestinal illness in the general population.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de monographies
  • Démographie
OBS

Agence de santé publique du Canada. L'Étude sur la population examine la base de la pyramide de notification - la communauté. Elle fournit de l'information clé sur l'ampleur et le fardeau des maladies gastro-intestinales aiguës dans l'ensemble de la population.

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Demography
  • Census
CONT

Demography is... concerned with describing and interpreting population distributions, the simplest of which are distributions by sex and age. A graphic representation of such a distribution is known as an age pyramid [in which] ages are plotted on the vertical axis and the total numbers of males and females in each age category on the two horizontal semi-axes; the progressive narrowing of the pyramid as ages increase is due to the effects of mortality...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Démographie
  • Recensement
CONT

Il est habituel de rendre compte visuellement de cette répartition [d'une population] en construisant la pyramide des âges : en abscisse sont repérés les effectifs de population et en ordonnée les âges, en sorte qu'à chaque groupe d'âges d'un sexe [...] correspond un rectangle [...]. La forme générale d'une pyramide est celle d'un triangle, cela en raison de l'intervention de la mortalité [...]

PHR

construire une pyramide des âges

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Demografía
  • Censo
DEF

En demografía, representación gráfica de la población, estratificada por edades, con los hombres a un lado de la ordenada y las mujeres al otro, sirviendo el eje de la abscisa para representar los efectivos de cada intervalo, y el de ordenadas para expresar los intervalos según la edad en años (0-10/10-20,etc.) La representación adopta el perfil triangular que recuerda la sección de una pirámide.

OBS

pirámide de edades: término extraído del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización del LID Editorial Empresarial.

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